Vega is a free and open source scanner and testing platform to test the security of web applications. Vega can help you find and validate SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), inadvertently disclosed sensitive information, and other vulnerabilities. It is written in Java, GUI based, and runs on Linux, OS X, and Windows. 

Vega includes an automated scanner for quick tests and an intercepting proxy for tactical inspection. The Vega scanner finds XSS (cross-site scripting), SQL injection, and other vulnerabilities. Vega can be extended using a powerful API in the language of the web: Javascript.

 Features

• Automated Crawler and Vulnerability Scanner
• Consistent UI
• Website Crawler
• Intercepting Proxy
• SSL MITM
• Content Analysis
• Extensibility through a Powerful Javascript Module API
• Customizable alerts
• Database and Shared Data Model

Some of the features in the 1.0 release include:

• Active proxy scanner
• Greatly improved detections
• Greatly improved support for authenticated scanning
• API enhancements
• HTTP message viewer enhancements

Modules

• Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
• SQL Injection
• Directory Traversal
• URL Injection
• Error Detection
• File Uploads
• Sensitive Data Discovery

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Offensive Security, the creator of the famous BackTrack Linux operating system, has announced on January 9 that a new maintenance release for its Kali Linux distribution is now available for download. 

Kali Linux 1.0.6 is the first release to introduce an amazing feature called "emergency self-destruction of LUKS," which allows users to quickly nuke the entire installation in case of an emergency.

Being powered by Linux kernel 3.12 kernel, Kali Linux 1.0.6 introduces the Offensive Security Trusted ARM image scripts, Kali Google Compute and AMAZON AMI image generation scripts, as well as numerous new tools, updates for existing ones, and many other interesting changes.

Keep in mind that Kali Linux is a rolling-release distro and you don’t have to download this new ISO in order to keep your installation up-to-date.

root@kali:~# apt-get update root@kali:~# apt-get dist-upgrade

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