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Nessus 3.0 Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the now-vulnerable-to-consumer-aquisition dept.

duplo1 writes Tenable Security has announced the release of Nessus 3.0. Nessus is an enterprise level vulnerability scanner and this new version brings a complete rewrite of the Nessus engine redesigned for increased speed and efficiency running on the average, twice as fast as Nessus 2. From the release: "In addition to gaining dramatic improvements in performance, Tenable also provides an optional Direct Feed subscription service for Nessus 3.0 which provides immediate access to new vulnerability checks and entitles Nessus 3.0 users to commercial support from Tenable. The Tenable Plugins include support for a rating methodology called Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) that can be used to express the criticality of a discovered vulnerability or threat."

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  1. Hindmost by Spy+Handler · · Score: 4, Funny
    Nessus is an enterprise level vulnerability scanner

    I thought he was Hindmost's lover :o

  2. I feel safe by this+great+guy · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ahhh what a pleasure to feel safe and good, knowing that my network is regularly audited by this now non-opensource Nessus security scanner. This product is developed by a respectable company, that really know computers, networks, and stuff like that. They have a fantastic website very well administered, and very safe. You know for sure that for example, given their competence and immense wisdom, such a website will NEVER succumb under intense intrusion attacks, denial of service attacks, and this kind of crazy things. Look just go to www.nessus.org.

    /me look at the browser trying to load the page...

  3. Beware! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Anything labelled 'enterprise'.

    TOTALLY SYNERGISTIC, DOOD! CUSTOMER DRIVEN EXIT PLAN MANUFACTURERED END USER APPLICATION LOGIC POWER AT THE END OF TEH DAY!!!!!!!!111111111111111

    Peel the onion! Shift the paradigm! Web 2.0! Low-risk, high-yield objective mindshare total quality driven living document!

  4. Enterprise level ? by ultranova · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does being an "Enterprise level vulnerability scanner" mean that it can be used to figure out how to remotely shut down the Klingon cloaking device or make a Borg cube self-destruct ?-)

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    Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.

  5. Why name product after a scumbag centaur? by aapold · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just curious... I mean, Nessus is a pretty despicable centaur, tried to rape Hercules' wife and then, after being fatally wounded, tricks her into poisoning herself with his blood.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessus_(mythology)

    Perhaps it is named for the Pierson's Puppeteer?

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    "Waste not one watt!" - CZ
  6. Re:Vulnerability shoots and scores by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    my god, finally the utility for my beowulf cluster of Commodore 64's