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Nessus creator challenging the community

The GPL community has been challenged.Renaud Deraison, who wrote most of the most popular open source security scanner, Nessus, says the next version will no longer be licensed under the GPL. The source code of Nessus Version 3.0 will no longer be freely available.He did this, he writes, to save...

Tags: Nessus 2.0, GPL

Blog posts 2005-10-08

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Open Discussion: Software firewalls

Open Discussion: Software firewallsRE: Open Discussion: Software firewallsI use both Windows Firewall in Vista and the built in hardware firewall in my router. I just don't see the need for a resource hungry, third party solution any more when the built in firewall in Windows does an admirable job.Fire ...

Tags: Firewalls, Network security, SECURITY, software, firewall, Network Address Translation, NAT Router, Microsoft Windows Firewall

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

The first question for 2006: Tenable tenable?

While open source mainly moved from strength to strength in 2005 it wasn't all one-way traffic.Tenable Network Security took Nessus, the open source network monitoring tool it supported, closed source with Version 3.0 this month. The move may work. The niche where the software works, network security, is dominated by...

Tags: Tenable, open source

Blog posts 2005-12-30

Nessus security tool closes its source

Nessus security tool closes its sourceExcellent software!If you're an auditor or lan security admin this program is a must have item.M$ paid them off!I'm sure M$ or $CO paid them to make GPL look bad.I hope they go out of business soon.Nessus security tool closes its source[i]The developer also expressed...

Tags: tool, OpenSource, Closed-Source, Nessus, GPL, contribution, Nessus security tool, open source, security tool

Discussion threads 2005-10-06

When will open source security grow up?

When will open source security grow up?Linux security products are mainly for babysitting Windows..They are out there..I found some....Ethereal, Snort, Nessus, Tripwire, YaST.. There are a bunch. What is it you want to do? Active directory style policies? If so get eDiretory from Novell.But for everything else try insecure.org.There are...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Linux security product, SpamAssassin, developer, open source, Linux, security, open source security, firewall, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2005-03-28