by Ron Gula on November 8, 2007
One of the powerful features of Nessus is its ability to perform patch auditing for many different operating systems over many different protocols. Most Nessus users understand that Nessus supports UNIX audits with the Secure Shell protocol and that it can also log into Windows systems. This blog entry will discuss using Telnet as a method for Nessus to perform patch auditing.
Who is Still Using Telnet?
by Ron Gula on November 2, 2007
As part of the more than 17,000 plugins available in the Nessus Direct and Registered plugin feeds, many of these look for common user name and password combinations. They will attempt to find administrator accounts without passwords, simple passwords and vendor defaults. Although these checks aren't performing an exhaustive brute force password audit, they may cause enough login failures to "lock out" operational accounts.
by Ron Gula on October 26, 2007
If you are a Nessus user, you are no doubt familiar with the process to subscribe your Nessus scanner to the Direct Feed or Registered Feed to automatically receive new vulnerability plugins produced by Tenable's research group.
by Ron Gula on October 22, 2007
This blog entry concerns passive network monitoring with both the Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS), as well as the Log Correlation Engine. Tenable's research group has recently introduced PVS rules to identify mail clients and end nodes which are likely sending SPAM.
by Ron Gula on October 18, 2007
Tenable Network Security's research group has released a new Nessus plugin which can make use of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to accurately detect Windows Vista, 2000 Server, 2003 Server and XP Professional. The Remote Desktop Protocol is also sometimes referred to as Terminal Services.
by Ron Gula on October 18, 2007
John Lampe, a senior security researcher for Tenable Network Security, will be presenting a talk and demonstration about passive network monitoring and web application vulnerability assessments. John's co-presenter for the seminar will be Matt North, formerly from ISS, Spi Dynamics and now with AT&T.
The talk location and date is:
by Ron Gula on October 15, 2007
Tenable Network Security has officially released the GA version of the NessusClient 3.0.0. This new client can be used to manage scans and results from UNIX and Windows Nessus daemons. The major new features of the NessusClient include:
by Ron Gula on October 15, 2007
It's time once again to vote for your favorite security companies and products with SC Magazine.Tenable has submitted the
by Ron Gula on October 10, 2007
After reading Richard Bejtlich's "Be the Caveman" blog post about the convicted hacker Robert Moore, I felt it would be interesting to show how unifying vulnerability monitoring, configuration auditing, passive network discovery and log analysis helps organizations detect intruders.
by Ron Gula on October 9, 2007
Dave Breslin, Tenable's Director of Sales Engineering, was recently interviewed by Stephen Northcutt, President of the SANS Technology Institute, about recent advances in network security and describes the benefits of passive vulnerability scanning.
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