Friday, September 5th, 2008
Earlier this year, Michel Arboi wrote a blog post explaining how to use Nessus to call Nikto and incorporate the results into Nessus output. Most newcomers to Nessus have enabled the nikto.nasl wrapper only to find it produced no output. Some Nessus users have found various ways to ensure Nikto ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
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 ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
If you're looking for a vulnerability scanner, chances are you've come across a number of expensive commercial products and tools with long lists of features and benefits. Unfortunately, if you're in the same situation as most of us, you simply don't have the budget to implement fancy high-priced systems. You ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Here is a list of new security tools that were released in the past week.
SQL Ninja 0.2.3 - SQL server injection and takeover tool
fgdump 2.1.0 - Tool for mass password auditing of windows systems
AxBan 1.0.0.4 - ActiveX killbit program
Nmap 4.65 - Network port scanner
Nessus 3.2.1 - Vulnerability assessment tool
Immunity Debugger ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Tenable Network Security has released version 3.2.1 of the Nessus vulnerability scanner. This point release includes a variety of small bug fixes as well as a new report filtering interface for the Nessus client. This blog entry will discuss the new Nessus features, bug fixes and reporting filters for the ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Security assessment and deep testing don't require a big budget. Some of most effective security tools are free, and are commonly used by professional consultants, private industry and government security practitioners. Here are a few to start with.
For scanning in the first steps of a security assessment or pen test, ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Is your company's Web site hacked? Today, it can be hard to tell. Online crooks who successfully break into a site often sneak in small bits of code that leave no visible trace but can attack visitors who simply view the page.
In fact, according to a Websense Security Labs report, online thugs who want ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Tenable Network Security is proud to announce the availability of Nessus 3.2.0, as well as NessusClient 3.2.0. Nessus 3.2.0 is a major release, containing several changes from Nessus 3.0.x :
New Features
Support for IPv6 targets (for the Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X flavors)
Support for limiting the number of active ...
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