An organization is concerned that its hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software. Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?
A) hping3 -S comptia.org -p 80
B) nc -l -v comptia.org -p 80
C) nmap comptia.org -p 80 -sV
D) nslookup -port=80 comptia.org

Question

An organization is concerned that its hosted web servers are not running the most updated version of the software. Which of the following would work BEST to help identify potential vulnerabilities?
A) hping3 ­-S comptia.org -p 80
B) nc -l -v comptia.org -p 80
C) nmap comptia.org -p 80 -sV
D) nslookup -port=80 comptia.org

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Nmap with the -sV option is used to detect service versions running on a host, which helps identify outdated software and potential vulnerabilities.

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