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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. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. New and Improved! by dspisak · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So advanced that now can you no longer look at the souce but you can't even load the nessus.org website anymore. Take that GPL!

  3. Re:Yeah, but there's also... by the_loon · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I will call BS on this, Nessus could be open source all day long. I believe they think there is money (lots of it) to be made, and they made the jump. They did indeed leave the covenant. Example, look at Snort, bought out, Marty got paid like a mofo, yet still open source and still free to the end user. I find "rebranding" issues to be a pretty cheap scapegoat for what is in reality "wallet low on cash issues".
    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.
    This is a horrible argument. Do you mean to tell me that the Nessus team found every vuln themselves and then coded an exploit to check for such vuln? The "free software community" you speak of actually coded the exploits, and released to the wild (save the full disclosure args for another day) POC's and working code, of which a simple check, MAYBE coded by the Nessus team, will bring in loads of cash to the now closed source product. Lets face it, money talks. I don't even really blame them, I would probably take the money too....but don't give me the "free/open software community never gave back" argument, as until this last 7 days, you don't exactly buy those exploits on ebay...
  4. Fro5t ,pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or chair, return may well remain OF AMERICA) today,

  5. Don't you think... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...that literacy is a useful acquisition?