[TOOL] GNessUs - GPL based Nessus

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Date: 10/11/05

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      GNessUs - GPL based Nessus
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    SUMMARY

    DETAILS

    GNessUs is a GPL fork of the Nessus security scanner. As a result of
    recent announcements by Tenable, we believe a fork of Nessus is required
    to allow future free development of this tool.

    Whilst we would like to believe that we will be able to continue to take
    updates of the Nessus 2 source code from the Nessus web site we will be
    endeavoring to add fresh functionality and plugins as part of the GNessUs
    project. The fork will be based on the current Nessus 2.2.5 packages from
    GNU/Debian, the source of which can be found above in a slightly modified
    form. We would welcome contact from any interested developers.

    This intention to fork has come after numerous pub and work discussions
    between myself and colleagues of mine from within the UK security
    industry.

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    The information has been provided by <mailto:timb@gnessus.org> Tim Brown.
    The tool can be downloaded from: <http://www.gnessus.org/>
    http://www.gnessus.org/.

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