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Main change is the splitup into libnasl, nessus-libraries, nessus-core and nessus-plugins. Too many changes come with 1.0.3, but most noteable the number of checked security vulnerabilities increased and got updated. This is based on work Hubert Feyrer did on some former version.
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The "Nessus" Project aims to provide to the internet community a
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free, powerful, up-to-date and easy to use remote security scanner.
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A security scanner is a software which will audit remotely a given
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network and determine whether bad guys (aka 'crackers') may break
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into it, or misuse it in some way.
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Unlike many other security scanners, Nessus does not take anything
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for granted. That is, it will not consider that a given service is
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running on a fixed port - that is, if you run your web server on
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port 1234, Nessus will detect it and test its security. It will
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not make its security tests regarding the version number of the
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remote services, but will really attempt to exploit the vulnerability.
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Nessus is very fast, reliable and has a modular architecture that
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allows you to fit it to your needs. Test the security of your
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network.
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