Open Vulnerability Assessment System

Posted by fneagle on Dec 21, 2008 3:13 PM EDT
linux-tip.eu; By Frank Neugebauer
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OpenVAS stands for Open Vulnerability Assessment System and is a complete tool for network security scanning including a graphical user front-end. I is used to  detect security problems in remote systems and applications. The OpenVAS development team consists of various interested parties from academia and commercial entities as well as individuals. Please notice that there are currently two different series available for download: the stable 1.0 series and the upcoming 2.0 series. The OpenVAS developers recently have announced the release of the 2.0-rc1 versions of openvas-libraries, openvas-libnasl, openvas-server and openvas-client. In this step by step workshop we’ll describe how to compile, install and use OpenVAS 2.0 on a Mandriva 2009 server and client.

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