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[Scott Wolpow]

Thanks to all.

Scott Wolpow

On 12/13/2010 1:48 PM, Gary Mort wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mitch.pirtle at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Scott Wolpow <scott at wolpow.com
>     <mailto:scott at wolpow.com>> wrote:
>     > Does any one know of a good service to scan a server for
>     security issues,
>     > besides Joomla centric?
>
>     You're best off doing some scanning on your own, if only to be
>     slightly edumucated on such practices. There are great free tools out
>     there too:
>
>     nmap - http://nmap.org/
>     nessus - http://www.nessus.org/nessus/intro.php
>
>
> Actually, unless it is for your own personal use[ie not scanning a 
> client site], nessus costs about 1200/year.
>
> If you really want open source, OpenVAS is currently active[currently 
> working on v4 beta].  It was, initially, a fork of Nessus 2.0 back in 
> 2005 when Nessus 3.0 was released under its new closed source model. 
>  As of 2008 Nessus no longer provides an 7 day delayed  feed of 
> security tests and will not include any GPL tests anymore.
>
> So OpenVAS is probably your best bet.
>
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