Nessus 3.1.9 Beta released

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In: Nessus , Vulnerability Scanner

17 January 2008

Nessus is the world’s most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the world’s largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications.

Main changes for this release :

  • 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

Post scriptum

Compliance Mandates

  • Vulnerability Scanner :

    PCI DSS 11.2, 6.6, SOX A13.3, GLBA 16CFR Part 314.4(c), HIPAA 164.308(a)(8), FISMA RA-5, SI-2, ISO 27001-27002 12.6, 15.2.2


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