-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [Note: I've been asked to post this since the announcement of the 3.0 version did not made it to the old (TAMU's) tiger users' mailing list.] New release candidates for the Tiger tool 3.2 version now available, this new release will include a lot of bug fixes as well as new features. DESCRIPTION: - ------------ Tiger (or the 'tiger' scripts) is a security tool designed to perform audits of UNIX systems. It's useful as an security check tool and as a host intrusion detection tool (if configured to run through cron and by sending e-mail reports). The Tiger security tools were originally developed to provide a check of UNIX systems on the Texas A&M campus [0] that wanted to be accessed from off campus (clearance through the packet filter). As such, the TAMU group needed something that anyone could run to test the security of a system if they could figure out how to get it down to their machine. It was written around the same time that Cops, SATAN and ISS's Internet Scanner was. Eventually, and after 2.2.4 was released (around 1994), development on Tiger stopped. This same tool has now been resurrected and there is ongoing development in order to make it useful for newer versions of UN*X-like operating systems. Source code improvements developed by Advanced Research Computing [1] HP, and Debian GNU/Linux [2] have been merged in order to provide a common (and public [3]) sourcecode base from which development is proceeding. The new release has been labeled as 3.0 and that release is now available at Savannah: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tiger/ DOWNLOAD - -------- The latest release is the 3.2 release candidates (last one at the moment of writting is 3.2rc3) available at http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=tiger MAILING LISTS - ------------- Mailing lists, for interested developers and users can be accessed at http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=tiger] Regards Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Germinus [0] Previous information on Tiger is available at "TAMU Security Tools: Tiger" at http://www.net.tamu.edu/network/tools/tiger.html If you are interested in knowing about Tiger's history read "The TAMU Security Package: An Ongoing Response to Internet Intruders in an Academic Environment (1993)" http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/134678.html [1] ARSC maintains a fork called TARA, see http://www-arc.com/tara, [2] Debian packages available at http://packages.debian.org/tiger [3] More information on the public CVS repository at http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=tiger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.1.1 iQA/AwUBPq98CqO1I0N5hzVfEQL8nACeNJpndX5RvzSxwKPDegmc1d+3pe0AoLfe cXytJ/pTgtdUkhT2oScwbsQy =wer+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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