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How scanners find vulnerabilities

Posted on February 20, 2023

DAST vulnerability scanners are not that different from virus scanners. In both cases, the goal of the software is to find something out of the ordinary in the target. A virus scanner scans a computer’s local resources and storage to find potentially malicious software. A…

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