Nessus is a security scanner sold by a company called Tenable. It runs through a customer’s network checking to see whether the computers have any known defects which could undermine their security.
Normally this works well. Yes, sometimes the test plugins do not have access to full information and have to make assumptions which lead to false positives. But sometimes Tenable writes the test procedure incorrectly. This has happened three times in the last three weeks.
