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Nessus Vulnerability Scanner

By depratama
Tenable Network Security released Nessus 4.0.2. This version fix all bug from the last released. New version of nessus support newest operating system from Apple, Windows and Linux.

Nessus can be used to audit:
* credentialed and un-credentialed port scanning
* network based vulnerability scanning
* credentialed based patch audits for Windows and most UNIX platforms
* credentialed configuration auditing of most Windows and UNIX platforms
* robust and comprehensive credentialed security testing of 3rd party applications
* custom and embedded web application vulnerability testing
* SQL database configuration auditing
* software enumeration on Unix and Windows
* testing anti-virus installs for out-of date signatures and configuration errors

New updates from Nessus 4.0.2
* Support for Windows 7 – Changes in the TCP/IP stack required updates for the NessusClient and Nessus server to run on this platform.
* Support for Mac OS X “Snow Leopard” – Apple also introduced changes on the latest version of its operating system and Nessus has been updated to include full support for the NessusClient and Nessus server.
* Fixed IPv6 scanning – Nessus scanners running on any Linux platform received updates and bug fixes for IPv6 scanning. A previous blog post covered the details of scanning IPv6 networks with Nessus.
* nessus-fetch updates and improvements – Updates were implemented for the proxy authentication component in nessus-fetch. Also, a new feature was added that allows the end-user to specify a domain when a proxy requires NTLM authentication.
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