"smbshell.nbin" Available
July 28, 2006The Tenable Research Team has made available an pre-compiled NASL script (an .nbin file) which can be used from any Nessus 3 installation to interact with a remote windows host on top of port 139 or 4...
Tenable and Reconnex
July 24, 2006Tenable's Log Correlation Engine (LCE) can accept events from the Reconnex iGuard. If you are not familiar with products like the iGuard, it is a sophisticated network traffic analyzer that can look f...
Dynamic Asset List Example
July 23, 2006I was at a Security Center customer this past Friday and they had asked how they could report on just certain computers that had certain applications on them. One of the things the Security Center can...
"A new direction for open source"
July 19, 2006Recently, Michael Arnone from Federal Computer Week wrote an article about various open source projects going closed source. The article mentioned Nessus, OpenBSD and Mozilla and had several quotes fr...
3D Tool Screenshots
July 19, 2006Tenable has been working on a 3D Visualization tool that works with the Security Center. We're almost out of BETA testing with it and the screen shots are something pretty neat to look at. The to...
Socialize with Tenable!
July 19, 2006In New York City? Tenable Network Security is sponsoring a free networking event hosted by (ISC)2 and The Institute for Applied Network Security. The event is July 19th at the Crowne Plaza Times Squar...
Security Center is an Information Security Mag HOT PICK
July 19, 2006I'm always really glad to see Tenable products independently reviewed and accurately reported on. Information Security magazine recently reviewed the Security Center and gave it really good marks in ...
Enhanced VMWare Detection
July 19, 2006Plugin #20094 attempts to guess if the target host is indeed a system run under VMWare. It does this by looking at the Ethernet address and checking to see if it is one allocated to VMWare "hard...
SCADA Network Monitoring
July 19, 2006Tenable has produced a set of plugins for our Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS) based on the publicly available SCADA IDS signatures from Digital Bond. This allows the PVS to discover which devices ...
SE Linux Log Support
July 19, 2006Security Enhanced Linux (commonly known as SE Linux) offers several methods to secure what the kernel and the applications can and can't do. This can help prevent successful buffer overflow attacks fr...
Detecting Network Change
July 19, 2006Tenable has recently added several TASL correlation rules which detect a variety of network changes. These rules automatically detect: Changes to servers such as new software and added patches C...
CentOS Patch Auditing
July 19, 2006Tenable is now tracking patch updates to the CentOS Linux operating system. The Nessus Direct and Registered feeds are now updated with host-based patch audits for CentOS. There are more than 200 audi...