bit gossip wrote: > Nessus is a vulnerability scanner: > > http://www.nessus.org/nessus/ > > Ixia provides a full Nessus implementation in one of its platform. > Well these days I would use http://www.openvas.org and http://www.metasploit.org for vulnerability scanning and analysis. However that wouldn't be a DDoS, but could certainly lead to DOS.