Hello Jochen, On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 04:35:19PM +0200, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to screen a foreign network for possible security problems. > (The admin knows. :-) Can anyone recommend books, tools, sources > or other things that help me? In particular I'd like to know how > to > > - screen ports
nmap is the tool which includes all known port scanning techniques, it can scan complete subnets. > - given a certain port number, find out what service it > is running (besides consulting /etc/services, of course :-) Hmm... dont know any real good tool for that (other than doing a telnet ;) > - given a certain service, find out about possible > security holes of that service, at least by citing > a CERT document or something similar satan is the solution, but not very current I'm afraid. > - ideally try WinNuke, Teardrop, 64k-Ping or other well > known security holes Those (especially the DenyOfService ones) are tested by Nessus, which is about to become the next Satan-like scanner. Greetings Bernd PS: all of those tools are listed on the freefire-page. -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (O____O) If privacy is outlawed only Outlaws have privacy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
