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September 19, 2025

Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Platforms Are CISOs' BFFs, Study Says, as OpenSSF Warns that AI Coding Tools Need Adult Supervision

Check out why CISOs are embracing security platforms to reduce tool sprawl. Plus, learn how to prompt AI developer assistants so that they generate secure code. Further, dig into CISA’s analysis of malware tied to Ivanti EPMM vulnerabilities. And get the latest on external attack surface management and the Qilin ransomware threat to local governments.

July 20, 2016

Threat Hunting with YARA and Nessus

In Nessus 6.7, file system scanning functionality was introduced that could look for specific file hashes of files on disk. This was in addition to the running process detection which has been supported for quite some time. Now, as part of the Nessus 6.8 release, we’ve introduced YARA to our…


July 10, 2014

Installing and Using Nessus on Kali Linux

Note: These 2014 instructions are for installing Nessus version 5 on Kali Linux. Please see the newer blog, Getting Started with Nessus on Kali Linux, for information on installing Nessus version 6 and higher on Kali Linux 2016. Note:  Nessus Cloud is now a part of Tenable.io…


April 25, 2013

The Big Red Button and the Kill Switch

I have no idea if I had a role in the "Internet Kill Switch" debacle, but it's possible that I was one of the pushes that got that particularly horrible ball rolling. Back in 2002, when I was between jobs, I did a talk at CSI in Chicago, about the need for organizations to be better able to react…


April 15, 2013

Recap: Geeking Out II with Marcus

Ron and I spent most of the webcast rotating around the theme of detection algorithms: how do you determine what is normal and what is not? We started off with one of my favorite questions, "Are there only two algorithms? Statistics - of some sort - or matching?" I think that, by the time we were…


April 2, 2013

Tenable Network Security Podcast Episode 163 - "Bind Vulnerability, Windows Hardening"

Announcements We're hiring! - Visit the Tenable website for more information about open positions. Check out our video channel on YouTube which contains new Nessus and SecurityCenter tutorials. Tenable Tweets - You can find us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tenablesecurity where we make…


January 23, 2013

Using Nessus to Audit Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Configurations

Trust, but Verify Recently, Tenable added audit files for Nessus ProfessionalFeed users allowing them to audit Microsoft SharePoint server configurations. The audit policy uses both operating system and database information from a SharePoint server farm and compares it against the settings…


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