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 ...

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 ...

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 ...