Plugin #34476, which requires credentials, determines if the patch has properly been installed on the remote host by checking the version of the NetApi32.dll
Both plugins are available in the HomeFeed and ProfessionalFeed.
More details can be found in the blog entry we wrote about this.
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21st October, 2008: Tenable CEO to Address Institute for Applied Network SecurityRon Gula, Chief Executive Officer for Tenable Network Security, Inc., will address the Institute for Applied Network Security at the Midwest Information Security Forum.
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20th October, 2008: PCI-DSS Plugins For NessusTenable's Research Group has released three new beta plugins to all ProfessionalFeed and Security Center users that automate the process of preparing a PCI-DSS audit.
More about these can be found on the Tenable Blog
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25th September, 2008: Tenable releases Nessus Virtual ApplianceTenable Network Security has released a virtual appliance for the Nessus 3 vulnerability scanner. The VMware appliance is available to ProfessionalFeed and Security Center customers.
The appliance image allows for rapid deployments and effortless management of Nessus 3 scanners in virtual environments. Users do not need to concern themselves with managing an operating system and can focus on managing their scanner configurations, operation and performance.
The VMware image can be downloaded on the customer support portal. More information about the appliance can be found on the Tenable blog.
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18th August, 2008: NessusClient 3.2.1.1 released for Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9Today, Tenable released NessusClient 3.2.1.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9.
This new version fixes an incompatibility arising with KDE on these particular platforms.
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1st August, 2008: Tenable Announces Channel Partners for Nessus ProfessionalFeed SubscriptionTenable Network Security, Inc. today announces Force 3 and Software House International (SHI) as Tenable's authorized channel partners for the Nessus ProfessionalFeed Subscription. More information on Tenable's partners can be found here.
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21st July, 2008: Nessus 3.2.1.1 (Windows) releasedNessus 3.2.1.1, an errata release for Windows, is now available.
This version fixes the following Windows-specific bugs:
- With some configurations, Nessus would fail to determine that remote hosts are up
- When the same service runs on different ports, not every instance would be scanned
- Nessus 3.2.1 would not be able to import Nessus 3.0.x reports
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16th July, 2008: Tenable Releases Charitable and Training Organization Subscription ProgramsTenable Network Security released plugin subscription programs designed for charitable organizations and training organizations. To learn more about qualifying for and how to apply for these programs, please read the following guides:
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26th June, 2008: Free PatchDiff2 IDA Plugin Tenable Network Security has released PatchDiff2 for the IDA disassembler.
PatchDiff2 is a high performance binary patch analysis tool developed and used by the Tenable Research Team when analyzing binary patches.
More information can be found on the Tenable blog.
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9th June, 2008: Top Layer and Tenable Network Security Partner to Provide Intelligent Defense-In-Depth SecurityTop Layer, a global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, and Tenable Network Security, the leader in unified security monitoring, today announced a joint partnership to provide customers with cross-network security awareness by correlating security event data between Top Layer’s IPS 5500 intrusion prevention solutions and additional security devices across an organization as a part of a defense-in-depth strategy.
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30th May, 2008: Nessus 3.2.1 releasedTenable Network Security, Inc. is proud to announce the availability of Nessus 3.2.1.
This new version contains a new report filtering mechanism in the client, adds support for Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 and re-introduces support for Windows 2000, and fixes several bugs.
Every Nessus 3.2.0 user is encouraged to update to this version. You can download Nessus 3.2.1 from here.
A more detailed blog entry about the changes in 3.2.1 is available on the Tenable blog.
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30th May, 2008: Marcus Ranum, Tenable CSO, Will Address the SSTIC ConferenceOn June 4, 5 and 6, Marcus Ranum will be keynoting the SYMPOSIUM DE LA SECURITE DES TECHNOLOGIES DE L'INFORMATION ET DE LA COMMUNICATION in Rennes, France.
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14th May, 2008: Tenable updates plugin subscription model for Nessus Vulnerability ScannerTenable Network Security Inc. today announced an update to its subscription model that will benefit home user and qualifying charities around the world.
Please read the letter to the Nessus community here.
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30th April, 2008: Tenable Releases Security Center 3.4Tenable Network Security, Inc. today announced it has released Security Center 3.4 for general availability. Tenable’s Security Center provides continuous, asset-based security and compliance monitoring. It unifies the process of asset discovery, vulnerability detection, data leakage detection, event management and configuration auditing for small and large enterprises.
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21st April, 2008: Marcus Ranum, Tenable CSO, Will Address Mnemonic Risk Management and Information Security Conference 2008On April 23rd and 24th, Marcus Ranum will be speaking at the Mnemonic Risk Management and Information Security Conference 2008 which will be held at the Ulleval Business Class in Norway.
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11th April, 2008: Tenable Earns NIST SCAP Tool Validation for Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) AuditsTenable Network Security, Inc. announced today that Tenable’s Security Center has been validated by NIST to perform Security Content Automation (SCAP) FDCC Compliance Auditing for the Microsoft XP and Vista platforms.
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4th April, 2008: Tenable's Nessus 3 Named a Reader's Trust Finalist in the 2008 SC Magazine Awards ProgramTenable Network Security, Inc. today announced that Tenable’s Nessus 3 received recognition in the 2008 SC Magazine Awards program by being named a finalist in the Reader Trust Award for "Best Audit/Vulnerability Assessment Solution".
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4th April, 2008: Nessus turns 10 !10 years ago today, Nessus was first released to the public. Renaud Deraison did a write up about these ten years on the Tenable blog.
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12th March, 2008: Nessus 3.2 released!Tenable Network Security is proud to announce the availability of Nessus® 3.2.0.
This new major releases contains several improvements, including:
- IPv6 support
- Improved control of network bandwidth usage during scanning
- Granular access to control rules to limit users to specific ports and audits
- Improved WMI support
- Full support for the new .nessus file format
Other notable improvements cover every area, ranging from reduced memory usage, new tools, improved port scanner, new NASL functions, and more.
This new release is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.
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14th February, 2008: Tenable Engages SAIC to Perform NIST SCAP FDCC CertificationTenable Network Security, Inc. announced today that it has engaged SAIC to perform Security Content Automation (SCAP) FDCC Compliance Testing for Tenable’s Security Center 3.2 Product suite for the Microsoft XP and Vista platforms.
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30th January, 2008: Marcus Ranum, Tenable CSO, Will Participate in the IDC Security Roadshow Marcus Ranum, Chief of Security at Tenable Network Security, Inc., will participate in IDC's sixth annual IT Security Roadshow. IDC CEMA is the most trusted market intelligence and advisory firm in Central & Eastern Europe and the Middle East & Africa (CEMA).
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15th January, 2008: Nessus 3.1.9 (beta) releasedTenable is proud to announce the immediate availability of Nessus 3.1.9 beta.
The main changes compared to 3.1.5 are the following :
- Debian 4 and Fedora 8 builds
- Fixed several issues with counting the maximum number of TCP
sessions in parallel
- New nessusd.conf options (nasl_log_type, stop_scan_on_hang)
- During a scan, the number of TCP sessions in parallel shows up if log_whole_attack is set
- The 'nessus' command-line tool can now import .nessus files
- 'nessuscmd' can upload ssh keys and .audit files on the remote server
- Improved nessus_tcp_scanner
- Several bug fixes
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28th December, 2007: NessusClient 3.0.1 releasedTenable is proud to announce the availability of NessusClient 3.0.1.
NessusClient 3 is the official GUI for the standalone version of Nessus. Its key features are :
- Real-time results. No need to wait until the end of a scan to start analyzing the findings of Nessus
- Document based. Save your policies, scan results and scan targets into a single file
- New XML based report format. The new '.nessus' file format saves into a single XML file your scan policies, scan targets and scan results
- Multiple connections. NessusClient can connect to several scanners at the same time
- Consistent interface. The same interface exists on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
This product can be downloaded from Nessus.org for Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, Fedora Core 6 and 7, and OpenSUSE 10.2
This update contains the following fixes :
- Exporting a policy to the old .nessusrc format now generates a file which properly configures the port scanners and plugin preferences
- On Windows, importing scan policies from NessusGUI.exe properly enables the plugins
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14th November, 2007: Tenable Representatives to Address Pacific Institute for Applied Network Security EventTenable Network Security, Inc. will discuss how to better manage risk, with a focus on how detection and management technology continues to shape network security at the Pacific Information Security Forum.
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1st November, 2007: Nessus 3.0.6.1 for Mac OS X releasedTenable has re-released the Nessus 3.0.6 package for Mac OS X. This new package (3.0.6.1) contains several fixes which would prevent it from installing properly on the newly released Mac OS X 10.5 operating system.
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30th October, 2007: Nessus Vulnerability Scanner Voted WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Award WinnerTenable Network Security, Inc. today announced that the leading Windows Security resource site, WindowSecurity.com, announced that the Nessus Vulnerability Scanner was selected the winner in the Security Scanner Software category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Awards.
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16th October, 2007: Tenable CEO to Address Institute for Applied Network SecurityRon Gula, Chief Executive Officer for Tenable Network Security, Inc., will address the Institute for Applied Network Security at the 5th Annual Midwest Information Security Forum.
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15th October, 2007: NessusClient 3.0.0 (GA) releasedTenable Network Security is proud to announce the availability of the GA (general availability) version of NessusClient 3.
NessusClient is a new graphical user interface which is unified across Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. The key features of this product are :
- Real-time results. No need to wait until the end of a scan to start analyzing the findings of Nessus
- Document based. Save your policies, scan results and scan targets into a single file
- New XML based report format. The new '.nessus' file format saves into a single XML file your scan policies, scan targets and scan results
- Multiple connections. NessusClient can connect to several scanners at the same time
- Consistent interface. The same interface exists on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
This product can be downloaded from Nessus.org for Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, Fedora Core 6 and 7, and OpenSUSE 10.2
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