October 7, 2009 - Cyber Exercise Over this past weekend I attended Cyberdawn, a cyber exercise that was hosted by Battlefield High School in Haymarket, Virginia. Sidebar: What is a Cyber Exercise? “A cyber exercise is a (continue reading...) Read more
October 6, 2009 - Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 6 Announcements New blog post going up today on the experiences at Cyberdawn, a cyber exercise that puts hackers against defenders in a realistic environment. Attention Security Center customers! A new version is (continue reading...) Read more
October 5, 2009 - Nessus, the Security Center and Passive Vulnerabiltiy Scanner were awarded a Reader's Choice award from Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity.com. The winners “were (continue reading...) Read more
October 1, 2009 - When analyzing network traffic it’s typically not as important to look at the contents of the packets; rather the information about them, where they are going and how they got there. This “network metadata” (often referred to as NetFlow (continue reading...) Read more
September 28, 2009 - Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 5 Announcements We've moved our video site! Due to some problems with Blip, all of our videos can now be found on YouTube in Tenable Security's Video Channel (http://www.youtube.com/tenablesecurity). (continue reading...) Read more
September 23, 2009 - The current version of the Nessus 4.2 client and server is labeled as "ALPHA1" and is still very much in development. However, the new client interface has been completely overhauled, moving to a web-based interfaced. This introduces a (continue reading...) Read more
September 22, 2009 - At USENIX in Anaheim, back in 2005, George Dyson treated us to a fantastic keynote speech about the early history of computing. You can catch a videotaped reprise of it here, on the TED site. I highly recommend (continue reading...) Read more
September 21, 2009 - Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 4 Announcements We've moved our video site! Due to some problems with Blip, all of our videos can now be found on YouTube in Tenable Security's Video Channel (http://www.youtube.com/tenablesecurity). New (continue reading...) Read more
September 21, 2009 - Web applications that manage sensitive data are usually protected with either basic or form-based authentication. Nessus can be configured with the appropriate credentials for these authentication schemes as they relate to web application testing. This post covers these authentication (continue reading...) Read more
September 15, 2009 - Tenable is pleased to announce the release of Version 4.0.2 of the Nessus vulnerability scanner!. This release includes several fixes and support for the latest operating systems from Microsoft and Apple. All customers are encouraged to upgrade to the latest (continue reading...) Read more
September 14, 2009 - Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 3 Announcements New whitepaper on web application testing is being released next week. Correction on The Tenable appliance it does support Security Center, with future support for PVS and LCE Hardware appliance has (continue reading...) Read more
September 8, 2009 - Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 2 Announcements New videos on finding Rogue access points and discovering the latest IIS 5 FTP vulnerability uploaded http://tenablesecurity.blip.tv The Tenable appliance was announced, featuring immediate support for Nessus & Security Center, (continue reading...) Read more
September 1, 2009 - Remote "0Day" IIS FTPd Exploit On September 1, 2009 security researcher "kingcope" released an exploit for a previously undisclosed vulnerability in the Microsoft IIS 5.0/6.0 FTP Server. Microsoft had not been made aware of the problem, therefore there is no (continue reading...) Read more
September 1, 2009 - Tenable is pleased to announce the release of the Tenable Virtual Appliance! The appliance replaces the Nessus VM Appliance and provides a preinstalled image of all Tenable applications in one easy to configure interface. The Tenable Virtual Appliance is (continue reading...) Read more
August 31, 2009 - Welcome to the Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 1 Announcements New video site! http://tenablesecurity.blip.tv The academy pro posted a new video on load balancing multiple Nessus servers Be sure to check out our blog at http://blog.tenablesecurity.com Interview: Ron Gula (continue reading...) Read more
August 27, 2009 - A "Rogue" Access Point Detecting and preventing rogue wireless access points is a major concern for many organizations. It is important to ensure that all wireless networks are established and configured in compliance with the organization’s policies and standards for (continue reading...) Read more
August 24, 2009 - Recently, Tenable CSO, Marcus Ranum participated in a Whitehat World webinar with Chris Nickerson, CEO of Lares Consulting. They debated the positive and negative aspects of network penetration testing. If you are an organization currently running a (continue reading...) Read more