Am 11.08.2012 11:51, schrieb Michael Meyer: >> Ping is off for a large percentage of public IPs that yet have services >> exposed. > > Realy? How many (in %) you think don't answer to ping? Where did you > get this information? > > Not allowing ping makes _no_ security gain. Denying ICMP is mainly > only useful in the "Security By Obscurity" model. "Security By > Obscurity", however, is completely useless.
but as you can see it works just in the case of OpenVAS "Security By Obscurity" is not a good security but it is a dmaned good ADDITIONAL security for still hardened machines
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