As you all probably known since version 3 Nessus turned to a proprietary model and started charging for the latest plugins locking most of us out. Now we finally have a new, properly organised forked development with the name of OpenVAS - at last a decent and free Vulnerability Scanner!
OpenVAS stands for Open Vulnerability Assessment [...]
Nessconnect is an open-source software package that can connect to a Nessus or Nessus compatible server and provides an advanced graphical user interface. It also provides a command line interface, and an application programming interface in Java. Users can create custom scan profiles, generate extensive reports, and perform differential scans and analysis. Nessconnect was previously [...]
SSA (Security System Analyzer) is free non-intrusive OVAL-Compatible software. It provides security testers, auditors with an advanced overview of the security policy level applied.
Features :
OVAL-compatible product
SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol)
Perform a deep inventory audit on installed softwares and applications
Scan and map vulnerabilities using non-intrusive techniques based on schemas
Detect and identify missed patches and hotfixes
Define [...]
SSA (Security System Analyzer) is free non-intrusive OVAL-Compatible software. It provides security testers, auditors with an advanced overview of the security policy level applied.
Features :
OVAL-compatible product
SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol)
Perform a deep inventory audit on installed softwares and applications
Scan and map vulnerabilities using non-intrusive techniques based on schemas
Detect and identify missed patches and hotfixes
Define a [...]
Cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection (SQLI) vulnerabilities are present in many modern web applications, and are reported continuously on pages such as BugTraq. In the past, finding such vulnerabilities usually involved manual source code audits.
Unfortunately, this manual vulnerability search is a very tiresome and error-prone task.
Pixy is a Java program that performs automatic [...]
Inguma is a penetration testing toolkit entirely written in python. The framework includes modules to discover hosts, gather information about, fuzz targets, brute force user names and passwords and, of course, exploits for many products.
Inguma the word is the name of a Basque’s mythological spirit who kills people while sleeping and, also, the one who [...]
A new version of SSA (Security System Analyzer) has been released - version 1.5.1.
SSA is a scanner based on OVAL, the command line tool provided by MITRE is not very easy to use so the guys at Security Database decided to write a GUI to make it simple to use and understand and then free [...]
Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL) is an international, information security, community standard to promote open and publicly available security content, and to standardize the transfer of this information across the entire spectrum of security tools and services. OVAL includes a language used to encode system details, and an assortment of content repositories held throughout [...]
With this simple tutorial I will explain how to install Nessus client (nessus) and Nessus Daemon (nessusd) and properly register it, so you don’t end up with the limitations of a non-registered version of the vulnerability scanner.
Installing:
I personally use apt-, however, you may choose any other package manager.
apt-get install nessus nessusd -y
This will install the [...]
There seems to be a certain amount of confusion within the security industry about the difference between Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessment, they are often classified as the same thing when in fact they are not.
I know Penetration Testing sounds a lot more exciting, but most people actually want a VA not a pentest, many [...]
