JayHill
4 min readJul 10, 2017

How to Run An External Pentest

(with Recon-ng, Nmap & Metasploit)

Introduction

Pentesting is the practice of checking a computer system, network or web application to find vulnerabilities that a hacker could exploit.

I’ll walk you through how to do an External Pentest of your own. You will need to use an ubuntu server and install these tools: