ANNOUNCE: sussen 0.8

[Loren Bandiera <lorenb mmgsecurity com>]

MMG Security announces the release of Sussen 0.8.  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 v0.8:

	* Re-write of code to better integrate with GNOME & GObject
	* More work on user interface
	* Start of Bonobo integration
	* Added GNOME integration features: Drag & Drop, GConf, and
	  use of GNOME VFS
	* Added g_thread() support
	* Start of command line version of sussen
	* Lots of code clean-up
	* Updated build system to use intltool
	* Updated help manual

sussen-sensor v0.3:

	* Re-write of sensor to better integrate with GObject
	* Switch from getopt() to popt() for command line parsing
	* Network protocol changes
	* Updating the method for loading Python plugins into the
	  embedded interpreter
	* Preliminary work on exposing parts of sussen-sensor to
	  the Python plugins.
	* Lots of code clean-ups

sussen-plugins v0.3:

	* Re-stubbed plugins to reflect work on sussen-sensor 0.3


* 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

* Availability

sussen

tar.gz:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-0.8.tar.gz?download

RPM:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-0.8-1.i386.rpm?download

SRPM:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-0.8-1.src.rpm?download

Debian:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen_0.8-1_i386.deb?download

sussen-sensor

tar.gz:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-sensor-0.3.tar.gz?download

RPM:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-sensor-0.3-1.i386.rpm?download

SRPM:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-sensor-0.3-1.src.rpm?download

Debian:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-sensor_0.3-1_i386.deb?download


sussen-plugins

tar.gz:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-plugins-0.3.tar.gz?download

RPM:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-plugins-0.3-1.i386.rpm?download

SRPM:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-plugins-0.3-1.src.rpm?download

Debian:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-plugins_0.3-1_i386.deb?download