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AutoNessus is changing its name, press release forwarded <br>
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<td>FW: Seccubus press release..</td>
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<td>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:39:13 +0100</td>
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<td>Frank Breedijk <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:FBreedijk@schubergphilis.com"><FBreedijk@schubergphilis.com></a></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">For publication
after 19
November 17:00 GMT+1<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">AutoNessus has a
new name:
Seccubus<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Since it became
apparent
that the next version of AutoNessus was going to outgrow the reference
to Nessus,
Tennable’s Network Security Scanner, due to the inclusion of other
scanners such as OpenVAS, NMAP and Nikto, the author of the program,
Frank
Breedijk, decided to start a contest for a new name. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">On the 19<sup>th</sup>
of November
Frank Breedijk announced that Jason Mansfield, who runs the website
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http:/clinicallyawasome.com">http:/clinicallyawasome.com</a>, has won the contest by sending in the name
Seccubus. A bottle of Vueve Clinquot champaing will be sent to him
shortly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">The author has
provided the
following explanation of the name Seccubus:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Seccubus is a
mythical
creature that helps security professionals analyze and report the
results of,
repeated, vulnerability scans. Like its distant cousins the Succubus (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succubus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succubus</a>)
and Incubus (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus</a>)
the Seccubus is also a creature of the night. At night, or any other
scheduled
time, the Seccubus draws its energy from repeatedly performing
vulnerability
scans of infrastructures until the vulnerabilities become exhausted or
die. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">The Inseccubus is
the male
counterpart of the Seccubus. While the Inseccubus draws his life energy
from
the assessor by repeatedly requiring him to (re-)analyse the same
findings, the
Seccubus get her energy from pleasing the assessor by reducing the
number of
findings by means of delta reporting.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">The name Seccubus
was chosen from a list of over 50
ideas sent after the contest was announced via the AutoNessus.com
website,
Hacker Public Radio (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hackerpublicradio.com/">http://www.hackerpublicradio.com</a>),
Paul dot com (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pauldotcom.com/">http://www.pauldotcom.com</a>)
and various other social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook and
LinkedIn.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">“I wanted a name
that was completely different
from AutoNessus” said Frank Breedijk, explaining why suggestions like
AutoVAS and AutoVAMP where turned down. Other suggestions where turned
down
because their name was already taken on media like twitter (e.g. VAsak,
Vulnerability Assessment Swiss Army Knife) or “simply because I
didn’t like them” (e.g. Mick Douglass is awesome).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Now that the new
name has been announced the
“rebranding” will be complete before the end of the year. The
website <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.seccubus.com/">www.seccubus.com</a>
is already live
but still points to the AutoNessus.com site. Also Frank’s twitter
account, @autonessus, will be renamed to @seccubus soon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">The response to
the renaming contest was
overwhelming and we would like to thank everybody who participated.</span></font><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">No virus found in this incoming message.<br>
Checked by AVG - <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>
Version: 9.0.707 / Virus Database: 270.14.71/2510 - Release Date:
11/17/09 20:26:00<br>
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Arron "finux" Finnon
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