Nessus 3.0 discussed

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday November 26, 2005 @09:33AM from the profits-and-the-bottom-line dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nessus is one of the world's most popular (open source) vulnerability scanners, used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the world's largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications. With the recent news of going closed source Ron Gula took a few minutes to talk to SecurityFocus. From the article: 'I speak to a lot of different open source project managers and they say similar stuff -- it's mostly free users and not really code contributors.' What would happen now? Nessus 3 will provide an average 5x speed improvement compared to the old, but open source, 2.x version, and a lot of new features."

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oh goody. by /dev/trash · 2005-11-26 10:21 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It was Opensource that kept it so slow. I am glad it's going closed, so I can get 5 times the speed.
Fork Nessus by Philip+K+Dickhead · 2005-11-26 10:58 · Score: 0, Flamebait

F**k Tenable.

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Re:Violating by Dropping the GPL? by Doc+Ruby · 2005-11-26 11:55 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Ah, but you just legally violated yourself, asshole. Try saying something someone can understand, or shut up. They keyboard is not your friend.

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