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OpenVAS emerges as free alternative to Nessus

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 OpenVAS, which is a fork of Nessus 2.2, was released this week featuring a server,...

Tags: Network, Vulnerability Assessment, OpenVAS, OpenVAS-Client, Tests, Networking, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-15

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OpenVAS emerges as free alternative to Nessus

OpenVas - Two Thumbs upI find OpenVas to be an excellent tool, and the more I use it the more impressed I am becoming.This is an interesting video showing the power of combining OpenVas with metasploit during a penetration test. It speeds things up considerably.http://www.securitytube.net/Pwning-using-OpenVAS-and-Metasploit-Db_Autopwn-video.aspxRegards,Peterhttp://HackerTarget.com

Tags: Corporate communications, OpenVAS

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight by the numbers: Akamai’s thorn? Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact...

Tags: Olympic Games, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Server, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Semantic Web, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-08-18

The first question for 2006: Tenable tenable?

While open source mainly moved from strength to strength in 2005 it wasn't all one-way traffic.Tenable Network Security took Nessus, the open source network monitoring tool it supported, closed source with Version 3.0 this month. The move may work. The niche where the software works, network security, is dominated by...

Tags: Tenable, open source

Blog posts 2005-12-30