Re: WhatWeb v0.4.7 Released. Performance enhancements and bug fixes

[Nima Talebi <nima.talebi () securusglobal com>]

http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/downloads/whatweb-0.4.7.tar.gz

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:42:12PM +1200, Andrew Horton wrote:
> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:42:12 +1200
> From: Andrew Horton <andrew () morningstarsecurity com>
> To: full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] WhatWeb v0.4.7 Released. Performance
>  enhancements and bug fixes
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> Version 0.4.7 of WhatWeb is now released. This is a stability release with performance enhancements
> and a few bug fixes.
>
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> Download: www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatweb/whatweb-0.4.7.tar.gz
> Homepage: www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatweb/
> Latest Version: 0.4.7, 5th April 2011
> License: GPLv2
> Author: urbanadventurer aka Andrew Horton from Security-Assessment.com
> Wiki: https://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb/wiki
> Development Version: https://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb
>
>
> About WhatWeb
> ================================================================================
>
> WhatWeb identifies websites. It's goal is to answer the question, "What is that Website?". WhatWeb
> recognises web technologies including content management systems (CMS), blogging platforms,
> statistic/analytics packages, JavaScript libraries, web servers, and embedded devices. WhatWeb has
> over 900 plugins, each to recognise something different. WhatWeb also identifies version numbers,
> email addresses, account ID's, web framework modules, SQL errors, and more.
>
> WhatWeb can be stealthy and fast, or thorough but slow. WhatWeb supports an aggression level to
> control the trade off between speed and reliability. When you visit a website in your browser, the
> transaction includes many hints of what web technologies are powering that website. Sometimes a
> single webpage visit contains enough information to identify a website but when it does not, WhatWeb
> can interrogate the website further. The default level of aggression, called 'passive', is the
> fastest and requires only one HTTP request of a website. This is suitable for scanning public
> websites. More aggressive modes were developed for in penetration tests.
>
> Most WhatWeb plugins are thorough and recognise a range of cues from subtle to obvious. For example,
> most WordPress websites can be identified by the meta HTML tag, e.g. '<meta name="generator"
> content="WordPress 2.6.5">', but a minority of WordPress websites remove this identifying tag but
> this does not thwart WhatWeb. The WordPress WhatWeb plugin has over 15 tests, which include checking
> the favicon, default installation files, login pages, and checking for "/wp-content/" within
> relative links.
>
>
> Features:
>       * Over 900 plugins
>       * Control the trade off between speed/stealth and reliability
>       * Plugins include example URLs
>       * Performance tuning. Control how many websites to scan concurrently.
>       * Multiple log formats: Brief (greppable), Verbose (human readable), XML, JSON, MagicTree,
> RubyObject, MongoDB.
>       * Recursive web spidering
>       * Proxy support including TOR
>       * Custom HTTP headers
>       * Basic HTTP authentication
>       * Control over webpage redirection
>       * Nmap-style IP ranges
>       * Fuzzy matching
>       * Result certainty awareness
>       * Custom plugins defined on the command line
>
>
> Changelog
> ================================================================================
>
> Version 0.4.7 Released April 5th 2011
> * Performance enhancements & bug fixes
> * Added -p + as a shortcut for -p +plugins-disabled
> * Added --quiet, -q - to not display brief logging to STDOUT
> * Fix Makefile - you can now install whatweb over an old version
> * Removed certainty from Mongo and JSON output unless certainty < 100
> * Removed certainty info from verbose output unless certainty <100
> * Bugfixes for error reporting
> * Updated some error messages
> * Disallow simultaneous use of aggressive level 3+ and recursive spidering
> * Changed default open and read timeouts to 15 and 30 seconds respectively
> * Updated slow plugins
> * Added plugins: TVersity, Ultimate-Bulletin-Board,
> * Moved plugins to plugins-disabled: atom_feed, meta-city, meta-contact, meta-country,
> meta-geography, meta-state, meta-zipcode and script
> * Renamed mailto plugin to email
>
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Andrew Horton
> Security Consultant for Security-Assessment.com
>
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