--- title: Building a Network Vulnerability Scanner with Go — SitePoint description: Learn to create a simple yet robust network vulnerability scanner using Go, known for its suitability in network programming due to its concurrency... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-network-vulnerability-scanner-with-go-sitepoint-ad0kfrfk4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building a Network Vulnerability Scanner with Go — SitePoint | daily.dev og:description: Learn to create a simple yet robust network vulnerability scanner using Go, known for its suitability in network programming due to its concurrency... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-network-vulnerability-scanner-with-go-sitepoint-ad0kfrfk4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ad0KfRfK4.png og:image:alt: Building a Network Vulnerability Scanner with Go — SitePoint og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building a Network Vulnerability Scanner with Go — SitePoint **[SitePoint](https://daily.dev/sources/sitepoint)** · 27 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Learn to create a simple yet robust network vulnerability scanner using Go, known for its suitability in network programming due to its concurrency capabilities and extensive standard library. This guide covers the setup, ethical considerations, port scanning, multi-threaded scanning, service detection, and vulnerability detection. Finally, it equips the scanner with command-line arguments for practical use. This tool is designed to identify open ports, running services, and potential vulnerabilities, with output options in text, JSON, and CSV formats. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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