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Diffstat (limited to 'security/nessus')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/nessus/pkg-descr | 17 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/security/nessus/pkg-descr b/security/nessus/pkg-descr index 50ac65a809d9..4cf739409f12 100644 --- a/security/nessus/pkg-descr +++ b/security/nessus/pkg-descr @@ -1,15 +1,12 @@ -The 'Nessus' Project was started in early 1998, and first released in -April 1998. At this time, the most complete free security scanner was -SATAN, which is clearly outdated, and you could see the emergence of -several commercial ones, that were clearly too expensive. +Nessus is a security scanner that crawls across a network, looking +for well-known vulnerabilities and common misconfiguration. -The Nessus Security Scanner is not only another security auditing tool. It -is a security auditing as I think it should be - never trust the version -number, never trust that a given service is listenning on the good port -(do all the web servers on earth listen on port 80 ?). +It has a unique set of features, including automatic SSL discovery, +services recognition (so it will catch, for instance, a FTP server +running on a port different than 21) and its own scripting language. -The Nessus Security Scanner is free, open-sourced and wants to be easy to -use. +The Nessus Security Scanner is released under the GNU General Public +Licence and aims to be easy to use while extremely powerful. WWW: http://www.nessus.org/ |