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If you have not heard the news yet, Brian Krebs has reported that the recent Target breach occurred when hackers broke into the network of a company that managed the company's heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. The intruders leveraged the trust and network access granted to them by Target and then from these internal systems broke into the point of sale (POS) systems and stole credit and debit card numbers, as well as other personal customer information.

PVS 4.0.1 is now available for download.

This new release introduces the following features and fixes the following:

I recently had the chance to explain Tenable’s approach to tracking insiders through authentication logs to a new employee. The conversation went something like this:

Q: If I handed you a pile of logs and told you that “Bob” in accounting was an insider threat, what would you do?

A: I’d look through all the logs for accounts that Bob had access to and attempt to audit which systems he accessed and possibly what he did.

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A new compliance plugin allows Nessus users to assess the configuration of FortiGate devices running on the FortiOS operating system.