1999-12-01 05:27:13 +00:00
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The 'Nessus' Project was started in early 1998, and first released in
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April 1998. At this time, the most complete free security scanner was
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SATAN, which is clearly outdated, and you could see the emergence of
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several commercial ones, that were clearly too expensive.
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The Nessus Security Scanner is not only another security auditing tool. It
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is a security auditing as I think it should be - never trust the version
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number, never trust that a given service is listenning on the good port
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(do all the web servers on earth listen on port 80 ?).
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The Nessus Security Scanner is free, open-sourced and wants to be easy to
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use.
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WWW: http://www.nessus.org/
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PS: To install the lot in one operation, do nessus-plugins first.
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