From michael.wiegand at intevation.de Thu Oct 2 11:14:22 2008 From: michael.wiegand at intevation.de (Michael Wiegand) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:14:22 +0200 Subject: [Openvas-announce] openvas-compendium 1.0-rc1 released Message-ID: <200810021114.22358.michael.wiegand@intevation.de> Hello, the OpenVAS developers are happy to announce the first release candidate of the new OpenVAS Compendium. The LaTeX source code as well as a PDF and a HTML version are available for download at: http://wald.intevation.org/frs/?group_id=29&release_id=207 The online version will be updated shortly as well and is available at: http://www.openvas.org/compendium/openvas-compendium.html A number of sections have been extended and updated, especially the sections regarding the communication protocol and the integrated tools. The PDF version grew by 14 pages and is now at 101 pages. Main changes are: * More Knowledge Base entries have been collected from legacy documentation and added to the Compendium. * Documentation for the new and improved OpenVAS Transport Protocol (OTP) which is used in OpenVAS from release 2.0-beta1 onward has been added. * A chapter describing the location of the various files belonging to OpenVAS and their purpose has been added. * A section regarding the integration of ovaldi and OVAL definitions has been added. * The documentation for SLAD has been extended. * The chapter on planing OpenVAS use has been extended. * The installation instructions have been made more generic. Contributors to this release: Tim Brown, Jan-Oliver Wagner and Michael Wiegand. Regards, Michael Wiegand -- Michael Wiegand OpenPGP key: D7D049EC Intevation GmbH, Osnabr?ck http://www.intevation.de/ Amtsgericht Osnabr?ck, HR B 18998 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner From jan-oliver.wagner at intevation.de Fri Oct 17 22:06:18 2008 From: jan-oliver.wagner at intevation.de (Jan-Oliver Wagner) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:06:18 +0200 Subject: [Openvas-announce] OpenVAS enterprise services: Greenbone Networks Message-ID: <200810172206.21876.jan-oliver.wagner@intevation.de> Hello, the newly founded Greenbone Networks GmbH targets the enterprise market for security solutions based on OpenVAS technologies. Greenbone envisions a mutual benefit by complementing the OpenVAS community with enterprise services. The benefit for OpenVAS is constituted in the strict Free Software orientation of Greenbone. It is a fundamental interest of Greenbone to grow the OpenVAS community, to contribute software and NVTs under GNU General Public License and to arrange direct benefits for major contributors. Greenbone is founded by Intevation and DN-Systems, well known major OpenVAS contributors who also organized the first OpenVAS developer conference in 2006. Greenbone is now building up a partner network and team; talents wanted. We appeciate feedback on all aspects and are open for business partnerships. You may reach us best via info at greenbone.net. With best regards Jan-Oliver Wagner Lukas Grunwald From michael.wiegand at intevation.de Tue Oct 21 08:27:49 2008 From: michael.wiegand at intevation.de (Michael Wiegand) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:27:49 +0200 Subject: [Openvas-announce] openvas-compendium 1.0-rc2 released Message-ID: <200810210827.49489.michael.wiegand@intevation.de> Hello, the OpenVAS developers are happy to announce the second release candidate for the upcoming 1.0 release of the OpenVAS Compendium. This release is the first to feature a translated version of the compendium: Since rc1, all of the compendium has been translated to German. In addition to the translation efforts, numerous small fixes have been made in the English version as well. Main changes are: * New German translation: openvas-compendium-de.tex. * Updated knowledge base entries. * New section describing access rules from the client perspective. * Many typos fixed. As always, proofreaders for the compendium are more than welcome. If you are an English or German native speaker (or close enough), please take a look at the release candidate and help us make the compendium even better. Regards, Michael -- Michael Wiegand | OpenPGP key: D7D049EC | http://www.intevation.de/ Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabr?ck | AG Osnabr?ck, HR B 18998 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner From michael.wiegand at intevation.de Mon Oct 27 16:24:27 2008 From: michael.wiegand at intevation.de (Michael Wiegand) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:24:27 +0100 Subject: [Openvas-announce] openvas-plugins 1.0.4 released Message-ID: <200810271624.27207.michael.wiegand@intevation.de> Hello, the OpenVAS developers are happy to announce that openvas-plugins 1.0.4 has been released. This release is a maintenance release with an updated NVT collection. As with all openvas-plugins releases, it is recommended that you execute the openvas-nvt-sync tool provided by the openvas-server component after installing this release to ensure that your OpenVAS installation has access to the latest NVTs. Main changes from 1.0.3 are: * Several NVTs written in C have been removed from openvas-plugins since they have been superseded by other scripts written in NASL and were inactive for a long time (nmap_tcp_connect, hydra, snmp_portscan). * The integration of other security tools has been improved (ike-scan, hydra), support for additional tools has been added (strobe). * A large number of non-functional tests for Gentoo security issues with an unclear license have been replaced with updated, working NVTs licensed under the GPL2. * A large number of new NVTs has been added. * A large number of NVTs has been updated. * Support for retrieving package version information from a remote host has been improved. * Some GPLed NVTs that were part of the last Free Nessus feed release were added. This release contains contributions by: Tim Brown Chandrashekhar B Carsten Koch-Mauthe Vlatko Kosturjak Thomas Reinke Jan-Oliver Wagner Michael Wiegand -- Michael Wiegand | OpenPGP key: D7D049EC | http://www.intevation.de/ Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabr?ck | AG Osnabr?ck, HR B 18998 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner From timb at openvas.org Fri Oct 31 00:34:21 2008 From: timb at openvas.org (The OpenVAS Team) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:34:21 +0000 Subject: [Openvas-announce] 2008 OpenVAS Contest Message-ID: <200810302334.22284.timb@openvas.org> The 2008 OpenVAS Contest took place from August 23rd to October 15th, 2008. With 5 nominees who contributed a large number of improvements to the OpenVAS framework and extended the Open Source Network Vulnerability Testing, it was a great success. During the contest duration the number of OpenVAS Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs) increased dramatically: from 3750 NVTs up to 5736 NVTs (an overall increase of over 50%). The most significant number of NVTs, which deliver full support for Gentoo and FreeBSD local security checks, were contributed by Thomas Reinke who deserves special thanks for his continuing support of OpenVAS. The OpenVAS developers and the sponsors of the OpenVAS Contest would like to thank all developers for their great contributions. The developers have spent a considerable amount of time on their submissions and have helped OpenVAS to become even better. These contributions will be included in the upcoming OpenVAS 2.0 release which will help to make the task of network security scanning easier worldwide. Since there were only three cash prices available, the OpenVAS steering committee and the sponsors decided after long deliberation to award the prizes to three new-comers to the OpenVAS team: 1st place (600 Euro): Vlatko Kosturjak 2nd place (300 Euro): Chandrashekhar B 3rd place (200 Euro): Christian Eric Edjenguele Congratulations to the winners! Sponsors The 2008 OpenVAS Contest was made possible by the following sponsors: Intevation GmbH DN-Systems GmbH Tim Brown Jon?s Andradas Cheers, The OpenVAS Team -- The OpenVAS Team