ANNOUNCING RSCAN 1.4.0 and various modules Rscan 1.4.0 (formerly ``Securscan'') is officially available. It has gone through a _lot_ of changes, far too many to mention in this article. In short, Rscan is a facility that allows System Administrators to execute complex (or simple) scanner scripts on one (or many) machines and create clean, formatted reports in either ASCII or HTML. There's really too much information to convey in a short posting, so please take a look at the homepage. Rscan allows the writing of modules that have different scans for different operating systems, etc. See the user's guide for more information. For more information on Rscan, please see: http://www.vis.colostate.edu/rscan A users guide is provided there in PostScript and HTML, and sample reports in both ASCII and HTML are also provided. Two modules are currently available. They are: IRIX-security This is what ``Securscan'' used to be. It scans for all published security holes in IRIX 4.0.5, 5.2, 5.3 and 6.0.1. It is available from ftp.vis.colostate.edu in /pub/rscan as the file ftp://ftp.vis.colostate.edu/pub/rscan/IRIX-security.tar.gz which is always a link to the current version. This module was written by the author of Rscan. If there are any holes that the IRIX-security module doesn't check, please mail it to Nate Sammons <nate@vis.colostate.edu> NetSecurity This module checks for many network related security holes, and is aimed at preventing SATANic assaults on a network. It is written by Paul Danckaert <pauld@umbc.edu> It's home page is http://www.umbc.edu/rscan and it can be ftp'd from ftp://ftp.umbc.edu/pub/unix/security/rscan/NetSecurity.tar.gz If you have any suggestions for things that the NetSecurity module should scan for that it does not, please mail Paul about it. There is a copy of Rscan that has both of these modules preinstalled, Ready To Go (rtg) on it, which is available as ftp://ftp.vis.colostate.edu/pub/rscan/rscan.rtg.tar.gz -nate sammons -- Nate Sammons nate@vis.colostate.edu System Administrator http://www.vis.colostate.edu/info/staff/nate CSU Computer Visualization Lab "The torch of chaos and doubt -- this is what the sage steers by." -Chuang Tzu