LinuxSecurity.com: Introduction to Nessus, a Vulnerability Scanner

“Nessus is a vulnerability scanner which performs scanning a
target network to seek for vulnerabilities in the network, such as,
software bugs, backdoors, and etc. The program is developed by
Renaud Deraison.

“In this article, we will describe the basics of installing and
using Nessus. Nessus operates as a client and server system. The
server can run on the Unix operating system platform, including
Linux and Open BSD, whereas the client can run on various operating
systems, e.g., Windows. In this article, we will show the
installation and usage for both the client and server on
Linux…”

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