Question

Which of them is not a powerful vulnerability detecting tool?

(a) Nessus

(b) Nexpose

(c) Metasploit

(d) Nmap

This question was posed to me during an internship interview.

This interesting question is from Exploits and Exploitation in division Cyber Security of Cyber Security

Answer 1

Correct answer is (d) Nmap

To explain I would say: Some of the most widely used tools for detecting vulnerabilities in a system are Nessus, Nexpose, Metasploit and OpenVAS. Hackers use these tools for detecting vulnerabilities and then write exploits to exploit the systems.