A new open-source project called OpenVAS has emerged to take the place of Nessus, the popular vulnerability assessment system that closed its source a few years ago. The first stable version of ...

The current incarnation of OpenVAS will only run on UNIX-like systems, and is extensively tested on Linux-based systems. The following examples and screenshots show OpenVAS running on BackTrack 5. To ...

I have been using Kali linux for years to scan my network for vulnerabilities. I use the OpenVas scanner with the greenbone overlay and it usually works flawlessly. Every year or so, I update to the ...

Thousand of people graduate from colleges and universities each year with cybersecurity or computer science degrees only to find employers are less than thrilled about their hands-on, foundational ...

These 5 tools can help automate the detection and remediation of vulnerabilities, they're available at no cost, and some are upgradeable to more fully featured platforms. Though you may know and ...

BackTrack 5, code named “Revolution”, the much awaited penetration testing framework, was released in May 2011. It is a major development over BackTrack4 R2. BackTrack 5 is said to be built from ...