To further that thought, ISS Internet Scanner (6.21/7.0) only covers slightly over 1,200 vulnerabilities. And several of those are very old vulns. There is a big difference between having a database of vulns and properly scanning and identifying them and them being relatively pertinent.
~Kevin Davis� What possibly could go wrong? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Renaud Deraison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Luman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:31 PM Subject: Re: N-Stealth vs. Nessus > For the record, securityfocus's vuln database > contains less than 8,000 entries at this time (including non-web and > local vulnerabilities), and I think ISS's XF database contains ~ 12,000 > entries (and again, this includes local and non-web vulnerabilities).
