NewsForge: Nessus Fork Emerges

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 26, 2005

“With news settling in that the makers of the network
vulnerability scanner Nessus will not open source the next version
of the software, the team behind the soon-to-be-renamed GNessUs
project is growing fast and attracting attention.

“Word broke on October 5 that Tenable Network Security, the
company founded in 1998 to hold the copyright for Nessus, would not
release Nessus 3.0 under the GNU General Public License
(GPL)…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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