07
May
Vulnerability scanners do an excellent job of finding the known unknowns. They check versions against advisories, probe for default credentials, and flag patches that should have been applied weeks ago. What they cannot do is think. They cannot chain three medium issues into a critical exploit, spot a logic flaw that no signature describes, or notice that the application's permission model has a hole the size of a small country. Treating a clean scan as proof of security is one of the more expensive mistakes a business can make.What Scanners Actually DoA vulnerability scanner sends prescribed probes to a target,…
