ANNOUNCE: sussen 0.9

[Loren Bandiera <lorenb mmgsecurity com>]

MMG Security announces the release of Sussen 0.9.  Sussen is a security
scanner which remotely tests computers or other devices and provides a
report on their vulnerabilities.
 
There are three (3) parts to the system:
 
 	* sussen (client)
 	* sussen-sensor (server)
 	* sussen-plugins (security tests)
 
sussen is the user facing side of the system.  sussen is designed for
the GNOME environment.  It uses the Gtk+ 2.2 and GNOME 2.4 libraries. 
sussen is integrated into GNOME, with support for Drag and Drop (DnD)
between Nautilus (GNOME file manager), use of the GNOME Virtual File
System and the GNOME help system.
 
sussen-sensor is responsible for performing security scans.  It is
integrated with GObject, uses Nmap port scanning and has Python based
security tests.   It also has support for PAM and
internationalization/localization.
 
sussen-plugins are the security tests used by both sussen and
sussen-sensor. The tests are written using the Python scripting
language.
 
**NOTE**: Sussen is not currently suited for production use.  Many
features are incomplete or not working at all.
 
* ChangeLog:
 
sussen v0.9:
 
	* Created base window class SussenWindow
	* Convert main window, plugin and policy editors to use 
	  SussenWindowclass
	* Updated interface of the Plugin Editor. The look is kind 
	  of inspiredfrom the GIMP and Glade.
	* Added new command line option --debug to make it easier to 
	  track downproblems.
	* Slightly changed sussen DB schema
	* Preferences dialog now has option to create DB schema
	* Changed objects to use GObject properties
	* Updated Debian scripts as per lintian's checks
	* Updated help manual
	* Various bugfixes
 
sussen-sensor v0.4:
 
	* Wrote ServiceAnalysis object. This analyzes services after a
	  portscan sofor example if you run a web server on port 25 it
	  will be tagged and andtested as such.  The service fingerprints
	  are held in a XML file andit's easy to add new ones.
	* Created SensorOracle object.  This provides a way of tracking
	  resultsand is used by the Python glue to implement the plugin API
	  calls. sussen-sensor can save this information in a Berkeley DB
	  and use it forhistorical analysis.  The database is scalable
	  to 256 Terabytes.
	* Created the start of the HistoricalAnalysis object.
	* Wrote initial functions for the sussen-plugin API.
	* sensor now only executes plugins specified by the client.
	  It nolonger always runs them all.
	* Changed objects to use GObject properties
	* Updated Debian scripts as per lintian's checks.
	* Various bugfixes
 
sussen-plugins v0.4:
 
	* Updating plugins for new plugin API calls

 
* Screenshots
 
 	http://sussen.sourceforge.net
 
* More information
 
The work for this project is being funded by MMG Security, Inc. The
company website can be found at:
 
 	http://www.mmgsecurity.com/
 
Sussen is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2,
see the file 'COPYING' for more information.
 
The official web site is:

 	http://sussen.sourceforge.net
 
More information about the development of Sussen can be found at:
 
 	Developer Blog - http://people.mmgsecurity.com/~lorenb/
 	Mailing List -
 http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/sussen-devel
        Software Map - http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/sussen
 
* Availability
 
sussen
 
tar.gz:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-0.9.tar.gz?download
 
RPM:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-0.9-1.i386.rpm?download
 
SRPM:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-0.9-1.src.rpm?download
 
Debian:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen_0.9-1_i386.deb?download
 
sussen-sensor
 
tar.gz:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-sensor-0.4.tar.gz?download
 
RPM:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-sensor-0.4-1.i386.rpm?download
 
SRPM:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-sensor-0.4-1.src.rpm?download
 
Debian:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-sensor_0.4-1_i386.deb?download
 
 
sussen-plugins
 
tar.gz:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-plugins-0.4.tar.gz?download
 
RPM:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-plugins-0.4-1.i386.rpm?download
 
SRPM:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-plugins-0.4-1.src.rpm?download
 
Debian:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-plugins_0.4-1_i386.deb?download