| C. Klaus. Internet security scanner. Available by ftp from ftp://ftp.iss.net/pub/iss, 1995. |
....surrounding SATAN is partly a result of its accessibility and its ease of use. Some people in the security community fear that SATAN will be used more by crackers to exploit vulnerabilities than by system administrators trying to protect their own domains. The Internet Security Scanner (ISS) [8] is another popular network scanning tool. A stripped down version of the tool is available for free from ftp.iss.net, while a full featured commercial version is also being sold by Internet Security Systems. ISS scans network ports and attempts to find and exploit known vulnerabilities. For ....
C. Klaus. Internet security scanner. Available by ftp from ftp://ftp.iss.net/pub/iss, 1995.
....the views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the defense advanced research projects agency or the u.s. government. level vulnerabilities for a given site [2, 3, 9, 5]. These tools do not provide an assessment of an organization s vulnerability to novel threats against vulnerable software. Recognizing that 90 of military systems use commercial architectures [10] the problem of untrusted software becomes of critical importance to those concerned with ....
C. Klaus. Internet security scanner. Available by ftp from ftp://ftp.iss.net/pub/iss, 1995.
....penetrate and patch tactics were the domain of elite security professionals and consultants whose methods and tools were as secretive as their services were expensive. More recently, many of their methods and tools have been captured in public domain security tools like Satan, COPS, ISS, and TAMU [2, 3, 7, 6]. These tools have been hailed as bringing computer security analysis to the average desktop computer user. They have also been criticized for putting years of security experience into the hands of computer crackers in the form of simple point andclick tools. It is exactly these sorts of tools ....
C. Klaus. Internet security scanner. Available by ftp from ftp://ftp.iss.net/pub/iss, 1995.
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