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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

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Certified Security Management Benefits FIDUCIA Customers

FIDUCIA IT AG is provider of IT services Headquarters: Karlsruhe - Germany with 3,000 employees. The challenge was replacement of the Nessus opensource solution with a commercial risk-management tool. It replaced the Nessus open-source solution with QualysGuard. FIDUCIA IT deployed QualysGuard, Qualys that enabled easy implementation of the solution; self-explanatory;...

Tags: Security Management, Qualys Inc., Open Source, Security

Case studies 2008-07-10

Exploits, security tools disappear as German anti-hacker law takes effect

Security professionals in Germany have started removing exploits and hacking tools from the Internet in response to a new German law that expressly forbids the distribution of any software that can be used in computer/network attacks.Stefan Esser left, the PHP security guru behind the recent Month of PHP Bugs project,...

Tags: Security, Law, Tool, Security Tool, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-08-13

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

Symantec scraps Sygate consumer firewall

Symantec scraps Sygate consumer firewallThis is a sad daySygate Personal Firewall was the best in terms of speed and controllability. Yes, the configurations are intimidating for novice, but once the user masters the options, he'll find it hard to replace SPF with any other firewalls out there.All should go and...

Tags: SECURITY, Symantec Corp., Sygate, SPF

Discussion threads 2005-11-28

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