Nessus, maker of one of the most popular open-source vulnerability scanner programs available, changed its licensing agreement with the release of version 3.0.0 on December 12, causing a bit of a stir ...

Vulnerability assessments are a crucial aspect of our overall information security program. We use Nessus, a port scanner that’s available free on the Internet, to conduct assessments of our ...

Columbia, MD – April 4, 2013 – Tenable Network Security, Inc., the leader in real-time vulnerability management, celebrates the 15th anniversary of Nessus®, the world's most widely deployed ...

Tenable Network Security, the sponsor for the widely used open source vulnerability scanning tool Nessus for discovering weaknesses in software, plans to commercialize Nessus in a major upgrade to be ...

Nessus has been on the scene for more than 20 years. Available in both free and commercial versions, many cybersecurity professionals have used the vulnerability scanner as a learning tool when ...

COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tenable Network Security, Inc., the leader in unified security monitoring and creator of the popular and award-winning Nessus vulnerability scanner, announced today ...

A new open-source project called OpenVAS has emerged to take the place of Nessus, the popular vulnerability assessment system that closed its source a few years ago. The first stable version of ...

The source code of one of the world's most popular free security tools will no longer be available to all, its creator has announced, saying the software's open-source license was fueling competition.