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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. v3.0 Download? What Download? by perlionex · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Nessus 3.0 is immediately available for download from Tenable...
    Their website doesn't list 3.0 as being available for download, just the old 2.26. What's up?
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  2. Yeah, but there's also... by hug_the_penguin · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ...the fact it's majorly improved. Of the people here, most of them won't care that it's closed source, purely because of the reason they closed the source. If it hadn't been for rebranding issues, (IMO a fault with the GPL), nessus would still be open source. It's still the best there is, people will still use it.

    Not everyone will avoid anything that isn't free/libre, especially if the quality is good. The free software community brought it upon themselves by not helping out and in the case of the rebranders, for stealing all sources of revenue nessus had when GPL. 100 hour weeks hacking on code don't come for free, you know. We'd all prefer it to be free, but it's not essential

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  3. Re:There's also the itsy bitsy license change... by Mark+Round · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Which is a major PITA, as there's currently no download for anything other than x86 Linux/FreeBSD. I run Nessus on Solaris (I'm the maintainer for the Blastwave.org packages), and it is this ramification of the license change that I find most infuriating. It wouldn't perhaps be so bad if Tenable could guarantee that all platforms would have binaries available for them - but this means they're leaving a large section of their userbase out in the cold. And woe betide you if you're running anything they consider really obscure or not worth supporting. Here's to the continued development of the forked GPL version.