So I am working my way through the Penetration Testing Student course and just got through the Nmap Scripting Engine part of the course in relation to port scanning. From what i gathered from the video from that section, is that running an aggressive scan , or even just a script scan, uses the default set of scripts that are generally safe to use.
Nmap’s documentation on the Aggressive scan though states that “However, because script scanning with the default set is considered intrusive, you should not use -A against target networks without permission”, in contrast with what the video said? It’s likely I misunderstood something from the video - Can anyone shed some light?
-A generates a lot of traffic so its not recommended. But i can use it in labs.