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New Added Utility : Lynis Unix Audit Tool v1.1.4

Wednesday 4 June 2008

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes.

This software aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, vulnerability and malware scanning of Unix based systems.

Intended audience: Security specialists, penetration testers, system auditors, system/network managers.

Supported operating systems

- CentOS 5
- Debian 4.0
- Fedora Core 4 and higher
- FreeBSD 6.2, 7.0
- Mac OS X 10.4
- OpenBSD 4.2, 4.3
- OpenSolaris
- OpenSuSE
- Red Hat, RHEL 5.x
- Slackware 12.1
- Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, 8.04

Security-Database team has successfully test this software on MacOSX 10.5 (Leopard).


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6 September 2008 : Lynis updated v1.2.1
27 August 2008 : Lynis 1.2.0 in the wild
15 August 2008 : Lynis 1.1.9 released
17 July 2008 : Lynis updated to 1.1.8 (now supports OSX)
30 June 2008 : Lynis 1.1.7 released