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- German researchers score Conficker detection breakthrough
- Just days ahead of an April 1st activation date for the Conficker worm squirming through the Windows operating system, security researchers at the Honeynet Project have scored a major breakthrough, finding a way to fingerprint the malware on infected networks. Now, with the help of Dan Kaminsky...
- Tags: Researcher, Network, Honeynet Project, Malware, Conficker, Conficker Malware, Scanners, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- OpenVAS emerges as free alternative to Nessus
- A new open-source project called OpenVAS has emerged to take the place of Nessus, the popular vulnerability assessment system that closed its source a few years ago. The first stable version of OpenVAS, which is a fork of Nessus 2.2, was released this week featuring a server,...
- Tags: Network, Vulnerability Assessment, OpenVAS, OpenVAS-Client, Tests, Networking, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Nessus 3.0.5 (Windows)
- The Nessus Project provides a free, powerful, up-to-date, and easy-to-use remote security scanner. It is designed to remotely audit a given network and determine whether it is vulnerable to hackers or other types of malicious attacks. Unlike other security scanners, Nessus will detect all used ports and physically test their...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Nessus Project, Security
- Software downloads 2007-04-28
- Nessus (OS X) 3.0.5 (Mac)
- The Nessus Project provides a free, powerful, up-to-date, and easy-to-use remote security scanner. It is designed to remotely audit a given network and determine whether it is vulnerable to hackers or other types of malicious attacks. Unlike other security scanners, Nessus will detect all used ports and physically test their...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X, Nessus Project, Security
- Software downloads 2007-04-28
- Using Nessus to Detect Wireless Access Points
- The detection of Wireless Access Points WAPs has become a major source of activity for many enterprise security groups. Conducting physical inspections of each campus location with handheld, laptop computers, or even dedicated "Wireless monitors" to find unauthorized access points is time consuming. Fortunately, these efforts may be enhanced through...
- Tags: Access Point, Wireless, Wi-Fi
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Oracle's fiduciary duty to stop the open-source movement
- Oracle's fiduciary duty to stop the open-source movementSounds too good to be true[i]An acquisition of MySQL, for example, would provide Oracle with an incredible return on its investment in just a matter of months because it would stop the loss of tens of millions of dollars in lost new business.[/i]I...
- Tags: open source, Oracle Corp., MySQL, fork
- Discussion threads 2006-02-17
- Uh oh. Has the zero-day exploit tipping point finally arrived?
- By way of linkage from Doc Searls comes this tale of woe from Mike, an IT guy in the trenches who, up until now, felt as though he was doing a pretty good job beating back the bad guys from the networks and users that he supports. Says...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Patches, security, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2005-08-19
- The Linux patch management challenge
- My post yesterday and your kind Talkbacks to it point out a basic issue, the challenge of managing patches on Linux systems.There are several good software systems out there, for both Linux and heterogenous networks. But there are three steps involved in a sound process, and good software only solves...
- Tags: software, patch management, Linux, Nessus security
- Blog posts 2005-07-15
- Web Application Firewalls.
- Anyone who has worked as a security auditor, sometimes called a “white hat hacker� , knows that most organizations have gotten pretty good at configuring their firewalls and patching their externally facing servers. Doing a scan with tools such as nessus reveals very few exploitable vulnerabilities. But,...
- Tags: web application firewall, Web application, firewall
- Blog posts 2005-03-21
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