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The cybersecurity industry mourns the loss of Amit Yoran, the CEO of Tenable, who passed away after a leave of absence for cancer treatment. Yoran was a well respected leader in the cybersecurity field. His loss is deeply felt throughout the industry. He was the founding director of US-CERT and also held leadership positions at RSA Security, and NetWitness. His death represents a significant loss to the cybersecurity community.

Tenable has disabled two Nessus scanner agent versions (10.8.0 and 10.8.1) after discovering a critical issue where a faulty differential plugin update was causing agents to go offline. This issue impacts the Nessus agents ability to scan for vulnerabilities and collect security data. Tenable has released version 10.8.2 to fix this problem and has provided instructions on how to bring the affected agents back online. This is a critical update for all users of the Tenable Nessus Agent.