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Scanner definition - hacker
Uses rules to scan for vulnerabilities on the network, computer ­system, application program, or Web-based service, typically working with a list of known vulnerabilities. Some Web-application scanners scan for vulnerabilities within applications.

See Also: Network; On-Access Scanner; On-Demand Scanner; Vulnerabilities of Computers.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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