Its not. They actually use Nessus. You can see it in the log files on a stat server when they hit your site. It was a real PITA before because they do probe ports and when they would hit our site, it would crater some services. I guess it was good because we reconfigured our firewall to protect against that but it really caused some sleepless night trying to figure out what the heck was happening.
Rey Brad Wood wrote: > tell me anything. They claim it is not nmap based, but I get the > feeling it is just a port scan and a list of default process > pages/default passwords for commonly used webbased admin tools. > > Oh yeah, and the warm fuzzy feeling... > > ~Brad > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:45 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: OT: HackerSafe > > Has anybody else sen this HackerSafe program from Scan Alert? > > https://www.scanalert.com/ > > Does anyone else feel this is like throwing down the gauntlet to > potential hackers?? I mean come on...."this site certified to be 99.9% > hacker safe" is like saying....come one and all and try and hack us to > prove us wrong!!. > > Personally I've always warned clients about boasting about their > security for just that reason. > > Thoughts? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| CF 8 â Scorpio beta now available, easily build great internet experiences â Try it now on Labs http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_adobecf8_beta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:280413 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
