Tenable has changed their license and you can no longer use their vulnerability feeds for commercial use. Alienvault.com has a free nessus feed you can subscribe to. It is available for use here . You will notice two update programs there. One for Unix and one for Windows. What about the MAC? To subscribe the nessus feeds on your macintosh do this: 1) Download the linux update script. 2) Update it so it works on your MAC as described below. First, in the "#Plugin dir" section you will need to to change the line that reads: NVT_DIR="/var/lib/nessus/plugins/" to NVT_DIR="/Library/Nessus/run/lib/nessus/plugins" 3) chmod +x alienvault-feed-sync.sh If you run the script by typing : ./alienvault-feed-sync.sh nessus you will see an error about not being able to find the command "md5sum". The nessus feed update did work, but the script was unable to compare the hashes to verify it completed successfully. That might be good enough for yo
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