Security Tools

• Nessus version 4.0 released
  9 April 2009, by Tools Tracker Team

  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.
  The following is a highlight of some of the features and improvements: Nessus Engine Uses the same engine on Windows and Unix-based systems for a unified experience on all platforms and more consistent results Fully thread-based (as (...)

• Lynis updated to v1.2.6
  7 April 2009, by Tools Tracker Team

  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.
  Examples of audit tests: Available authentication methods Expired SSL certificates Outdated software User accounts without password Incorrect file permissions Firewall auditing
  Changelog for v1.2.6
  New: Sudoers file permissions check (...)

• Ophcrack updated to v3.2.1
  7 April 2009, by Tools Tracker Team

  Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel CPU) as well as on Linux.
  This is mostly a maintenance release, except the support for our new vista_num tables. These tables crack 99.9% numeric passwords of length 1 to 12.
  The code has been fixed to support large files bigger than 2GB even on 32-bits (...)

• Autoscan v1.42 now supports OSX
  4 April 2009, by Tools Tracker Team

  AutoScan-Network is a network discovering and managing application. No configuration is required to scan your network. The main goal is to print the list of connected equipments in your network
  Features: Multithreaded Scan Automatic network discovery Low surcharge on the network Simultaneous subnetworks scans without human intervention Realtime detection of any connected equipment Supervision of any equipment (router, server, firewall...) Supervision of any network service (smtp, http, (...)

• OAT Office Communication Server Tool Assessment released
  3 April 2009, by Tools Tracker Team

  OAT is a free VoIP security assessment tool designed to test the security configuration of Microsoft OCS SIP infrastructures, for deployment/implementation issues. It’s the first OCS SIP validation tool written in windows. OAT is the first security assessment tool for Office Communication Server 2007 (Including R2)
  OAT has a user friendly tabbed interface that begins with a password strength test feature. Once the OAT user has successfully elicited the password, attack modules from (...)

• winAUTOPWN v1.7.0 released
  2 April 2009, by Tools Tracker Team

  The aim of creating winAUTOPWN is not to compete with already existing commercial frameworks like Core Impact (Pro), Immunity Canvas, Metasploit Framework (freeware), etc. which offer autohacks, but to create a free, quick, standalone application which is easy to use and doesn’t require a lot of support of other dependencies. Also not forgetting that winAUTOPWN unlike other frameworks maintains the original exploit writer’s source code intact just as it was and uses it. This way the exploit (...)

• AutoNessus v1.3.0 supports OpenVAS
  2 April 2009, by Tools Tracker Team

  AutoNessus automates regular Nessus scans and provides delta reporting.
  The goal is to reduce the analysis time for subsequent scans of the same infrastructure by only reporting delta findings.
  Major change for this release Support of OpenVAS
  Bugs fixed Ticket [ 2653614 ] - Problems with mode=portscan Ticket [ 2604472 ] - Predicatable diffs v1.2.5 Ticket [ 2592187 ] - New autoremarks Ticket [ 2609184 ] - XSS in view_finding.pl Ticket [ 2705701 ] - CVE entries were not properly formatted (...)

• VisualRoute v13.1a available
  31 March 2009, by Tools Tracker Team

  VisualRoute is a free IP tracer analyzes network connectivity, identifies IP address locations. It analyzes your Internet connection to determine precisely where and how data traffic is flowing, identifying where any bottlenecks occur. A trace report details the performance of each portion of the connection route, including any dropped data packets and network latency, along with the IP address, node name and network provider.
  Features Graphical View of Traceroute, Ping, Reverse DNS (...)

• Scanners and utilities to detect Conficker worm
  31 March 2009, by Tools Tracker Team

  Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is a computer worm that surfaced in October 2008 and targets the Microsoft Windows operating system. The worm exploits a previously patched vulnerability in the Windows Server service used by Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 Beta, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta. The worm has been unusually difficult for network operators and law enforcement to counter because of its combined use (...)

• Sara vulnerability scanner updated to v7.8.4
  29 March 2009, by Tools Tracker Team

  The Security Auditor’s Research Assistant (SARA) is a third generation network security analysis tool that is: Operates under Unix, Linux, MAC OS/X or Windows (through coLinux) OS’. Integrates the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). Performs SQL injection tests. Performs exhaustive XSS tests Can adapt to many firewalled environments. Support remote self scan and API facilities. Used for CIS benchmark initiatives Plug-in facility for third party apps CVE standards support Enterprise search (...)

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