
What Nmap and Nessus Found on My Own Network
A hands-on Nmap and Nessus vulnerability scan of a real home network, covering an outdated Node.js build, an open VNC service, and unauthenticated SMB shares.
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A hands-on Nmap and Nessus vulnerability scan of a real home network, covering an outdated Node.js build, an open VNC service, and unauthenticated SMB shares.

Nmap flagged a 10.0 on a Samba host. Here's a quarterly Nmap and Nessus scan routine, plus the validate, fix, and re-scan testing plan that turns raw scan results into vulnerabilities actually closed.