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Nessus 3.0 discussed

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 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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  1. Re:More info links by sploxx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sorry, bad karma makes people do this kind of post... :(

    Eh? Demanding sympathetic modders?!

    Is this the newest trick after

    "I'll probably get modded down for this"

    and

    "Don't mod me up"?

    I doubt that this will work :-)

  2. Re:What do you mean, "Funny"?? by Surt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You've completely missed one of the fundamental rules of slashdot moderation. Mods do the opposite of what you tell them to do.
    Mods: I forbid you to find this post insightful!

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  3. Re:Violating by Dropping the GPL? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Moderation -1
        100% Flamebait

    TrollMods can't tell the difference between my Flame and someone else's Flamebait.

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