Subject: Nessus 2.0.8
- A free, open-sourced and easy-to-use security auditing tool
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:53:48 +0000 (UTC)

about:
Nessus is a remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other
Unices. It is plug-in-based, has a GTK interface, and performs over 1800
remote security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML,
XML, LaTeX, and ASCII text, and suggests solutions for security problems.

Changes:
This new version is dramatically faster than 2.0.7, several bugs have been
fixed, and NASL scripts now support cross-references with any third party
vulnerability database (i.e. CERT).

Release focus: Minor bugfixes
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nessus/
Tar/GZ: http://freshmeat.net/redir/nessus/70...essus_2_0.html

Regards
Gordon