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Vulnerability scanning with OpenVAS

Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) is an open source vulnerability scanning framework. OpenVAS is simple to install and has a user-friendly interface for performing vulnerability assessments. According to the OpenVAS website (http://www.openvas.org/about.html), there are over 50,000 Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs) within the framework, which is a part of the Greenbone Networks commercial vulnerability management framework.

To install OpenVAS, open a new Terminal and type apt-get install openvas, as follows:

Once OpenVAS has been successfully installed, type openvas-setup into the Terminal ...

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