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“Snort creator Sourcefire and Insecure.Org, the creator
of the Nmap Security Scanner will jointly develop open source
vulnerability scanning technology based on the general purpose Nmap
Scripting Engine embedded within the popular Nmap network discovery
tool. Under the agreement, Insecure.Org will develop the engine
while the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team will develop and
contribute plug-ins for discovering specific
vulnerabilities.”