Security Database Tools Watch

Security-Database recent updates and upcoming changes.

2008-07-07T14:56:36Z

First of all, good news from Making Security Measurable, we will be soon be a part of this great efforts list. Besides, we are officially "Supporter of the "Making Security Measurable" effort". See logo integrated in the footer of website.
The following updates have been done :
Integration of (...) - SD News

DPE (Default Password Enumeration) security standard launched.

2008-06-25T08:17:21Z

We are again proud and happy to announce that we have just launched a new Enumeration Project with the hope it will be useful for the security community as a new standard.
It can then be used along with softwares that integrates standards as well as OVAL, SCAP and others.
DPE is the (...) - SD News

CWE Compatibility declaration

2008-05-18T21:39:47Z

We have made a CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) declaration to be CWE-Compatible. For additional information about this and other compatible products, visit the CWE Compatibility and Effectiveness section. - SD News

FireCAT version 1.4 announcement

2008-05-12T17:14:44Z

FireCAT (Firefox Catalog of Auditing exTensions) version 1.4 is available. You can download .mm source and HTML browsable copy at here. - SD News

Security-Database.com CWE draft9 update

2008-04-14T22:38:34Z

Security-Database is pleased to announce anew improvement of the SD alerts Dashboard.
CWE Draft version 9 is now integrated into our database.
You can see them at http://www.security-database.com/cwe.php
The Team. - SD News

SSA 1.6 Beta 2 released

2008-04-14T15:55:41Z

SSA 1.6 beta 2 just released
Changelog
Updated OVAL Security Check Plugin to support OVAL 5.4 schema
Proxy support of NTLM authentication
Reported Bugs fixed
Draft documentation delayed (sorry guys, we've urged to release beta 2 to fix errors generated with OVAL 5.3 schema)
Next Beta 3 (...) - SD News / SSA, Configurations checks, Local auditing, Vulnerability Management

Security-Database.com new website updates v3.3

2008-04-14T15:49:40Z

Security-Database is pleased to announce the new improvements of the SD alerts Dashboard.
Now each security alert is mapped (if available) along with these information :
OVAL ID Vulnerability class
OVAL ID Inventory class
CAPEC v1.1
CWE version 8 (v9 is planned)
CPE version 2.1 draft. (...) - SD News

SSA Security System Analyzer version 1.6 beta 1 released

2008-04-07T15:47:56Z

We are proud to announce the availability of the first beta of the 1.6 version branch. You should also expect some bugs as this is the first beta stage of branch 1.6.
At the time of posting this news, we are already working on Beta 2.
Many changes and improvements since the 1.5.x releases. (...) - SD News / SSA, Configurations checks, Local auditing, Vulnerability Management

New website updates - V3.2

2008-01-30T16:44:41Z

By the beginning of this year, security-database.com is now 6 members.
We have also improved some web site features. Here are the new modifications.
Improved alerts cross-link engine ( here is an exemple of a new Crosslink)
Added new functions
Bugs fixed
Optimized
Complete migration of (...) - SD News

BEST IT Security and Auditing Softwares 2007

2007-12-31T17:00:20Z

By the end of the year 2007, i become slightly melancholic and decide to release a survey of the most efficient IT Security Softwares for auditors, security administrators and pentesters. Read full article - SD News

FireCAT 1.3 released (Exploitme tools included)

2007-11-27T10:51:53Z

FireCAT is a Firefox Framework Map collection of the most useful security oriented extensions.
Get FireCAT 1.3 - SD News

New website updates

2007-11-21T14:42:38Z

Security-Database.com is happy to announce the following updates and improvements on website.
Vulnerability Dashboard new adds
Added Sun alerts.
Added Ubuntu alerts.
Added Cisco alerts.
Support CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration)
New OVAL repository is compliant with the MITRE (...) - SD News

FireCAT (Firefox Catalog of Auditing exTensions) version 1.2 released

2007-09-02T18:50:15Z

We have just released a new version of FireCAT framework.
FireCAT 1.2 reaches 60 extensions. Thanks to all fellas who give us a helping hand to collect and maintain this framework. We are also happy to announce that FireCAT exceeded 40 000 download.
Download this new (...) - SD News

Security-Database.com Free Widget

2007-08-29T19:08:13Z

SpringWidgets are little windows you can dock on your desktop so you get all information you need while working.
Found here Security-Database Tools Tracker Widget. You can download it. It runs only on Windows environment. (click on Options tab to get it)
See more about SpringWidgets, if you (...) - SD News

Security-Database.com mentioned in GFI's reviews & awards

2007-08-02T14:01:20Z

Security-Database.com was mentioned in GFI's Reviews and Awards page with link to our LAnguard N.S.S 8.0 review document.
Source GFI
Not an ordinary scanner – In a review in Security-Database, GFI LANguard N.S.S. is given a 4.5 out of 5 rating and described as “by far one of the best software (...) - SD News / Languard NSS

SSA Security System Analyzer version 1.5.2 released

2007-07-18T12:15:14Z

We have just released SSA Security System Analyzer version 1.5.2
Changelog
Based on OVAL 5.3 build 20 (see OVAL project for more information)
SSA now supports SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol). The XML SCAP files are extracted using our new SCAP Parser (SCAP_Patch_Extractor). The (...) - SD News

Security-Database.com new alerts feed available

2007-07-10T20:52:06Z

Security-Database now provides Last100 alerts feed that makes possible realtime monitoring for new advisories (CVE, MS, Unix....) Subscribe for free : Last 100 Alerts rss feed
The feed provides :
Severity - Alert Name - Title and a small (...) - SD News

Security-Database.com now supports CVSS V2.0

2007-07-03T08:51:40Z

Security-Database.com alerts tracking processus now supports CVSS V2.0. The alerts' scoring will include these information :
Cvss Base Score
Cvss Impact Score
Cvss Expoit Score
Attack Range
Attack Complexity
Authentification
Security-Database has joined First.org CVSS early (...) - SD News / CVSS

Security-Database.com is implementing CVSS 2.0

2007-06-21T09:10:30Z

We are implementing the new CVSS 2.0 for all our CVE alerts database.
So, do not report "temporary" incompleted information related to CVE and its impact metrics.
Next release of SSA (security system analyzer) should include a CVSS v2.0 plugin.
[Updated News]
The full CVSS v2.0 has been (...) - SD News

Security-Database.com new website online.

2007-06-18T19:32:25Z

Security-Database.com is happy to announce the release of the 3rd version of the Website.
One of the features is the complete redesign.
Here is a list of the new website features and services :
Security-Database.com looks more professional with the new design
Code is completely rewritten (...) - SD News