basically because it is our operating system of choice and it just works. Perl comes already installed in Ubuntu. So it is a matter of downloading the tool, unpacking it and running the command with the necessary options. For Windows users runningNiktowill involve installing a perl environment ...
Nikto is a command-line interface tool that runs on Linux. For those of us who are in a Windows-centric environment, or prefer to use a graphical interface, SensePost has produced a Windows version of Nikto called Wikto, as shown in Figure 10.5. Wikto is very similar in functionality to...
Nikto Web Scanneris an another good to have tool for any Linux administrator’s arsenal. It’s an Open source web scanner released under the GPL license, which is used to perform comprehensive tests on Web servers for multiple items including over6500potentially dangerousfiles/CGIs. Suggested Rea...
Nikto performs over 6000 tests against a website. The large number of tests for both security vulnerabilities and mis-configured web servers makes it ago to tool for many security professionals and systems administrators. It can find forgotten scripts and other hard to detect problems from an exte...
Nikto is not designed as an overly stealthy tool. It will test a web server in the shortest timespan possible, and it's fairly obvious in log files. However, there is support for LibWhisker's anti-IDS methods in case you want to give it a try (or test your IDS system). ...