RE: Nessus featured in InfoSecurity Magazine

[Gilbert, Austin]

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I think that everyone's comments and objections to the errors in this article are well placed. However, I feel that the Nessus community would benefit to a greater extent if these comments were directed to the editors of InfoSecurity Magazine.  I'm sure that they have some kind of comment section for letters to the editor...

I think you get my drift:

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Corrales Romero Jorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Nessus featured in InfoSecurity Magazine

I think this report is not acurate.   It said nessus cannot detect old SSH versions and it is not true.

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Michael Scheidell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Enviado el: martes, 04 de marzo de 2003 14:38
Para: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asunto: Re: Nessus featured in InfoSecurity Magazine

> http://www.infosecuritymag.com/2003/mar/cover.shtml
>
> It's unfortunate to see that there are wrong statements in the article
> such as: (when talking of plugin updates)
> "Nessus' vulnerability database is updated regularly, but you have to go
> to the Web site."

Lots of things missing in the report, and , well wrong.

But, its a start.

Also, I find this amusing, not for its humor value, but it tells us
that they had unknown/undocumented vulnerabilities in several servers.

Nessus gets our vote for "Most Unsafe Program to Have on Your Network." We
not only crashed servers and clients consistently with Nessus; we even
confused our GPS-based NTP server enough that it had to be re-FLASHed with
new firmware.

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