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Re: Newbie Hacker Tools
From: Leif Ericksen <leife () dls net>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 05:52:16 -0600
There are plenty of tools out there and even more reading about it to do. Yes there are some tools out there that are free that may have a clause that if you use it in a certain manner they are not free. You may have to have your lawyer review the license agreements that are given with the products. GNU, Berkeley, et al. (Bah-Bah clause V.S legit company disclaimer placed here) Then once you get complete with the open source products you have others such as ISS's products that you will want to take a look at as well. Time for a book store run and some time spent with books on computer and network security, as well as security auditing and hacking. (Hacking exposed). It also sounds like you could use some formal training in computer security (SANS, CompTIA, other) After that is all done and understood you will either no longer need the sub contractors, or will be well on your way to know when they aer blowing smoke and living on your dime. -- Leif Ericksen
My name is Ed and I run a technology consulting company. I have begun offering computer security audits to my clients and, as I am not experienced in hacking, have been subcontracting this work out. The written reports that I have received back from the hackers leave much to be desired! Not knowing too much about intrusion detection but realizing that when almost nothing is found wrong (from a security viewpoint) with a client's network, I am in big trouble! Either the hacker does not have the experience to find any problems or there really are not any problems. <SNIP>
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- Newbie Hacker Tools Edmond Chow (Jan 06)
- Re: Newbie Hacker Tools bernie (Jan 06)
- Re: Newbie Hacker Tools Steve Sanders (Jan 07)
- Re: Newbie Hacker Tools Vijay Vikram (Jan 07)
- RE: Newbie Hacker Tools James McGee (Jan 07)
- RE: Newbie Hacker Tools skill2die4 (Jan 07)
- Re: Newbie Hacker Tools AdMod (Jan 07)
- Re: Newbie Hacker Tools Mordread Wallas (Jan 07)
- Re: Newbie Hacker Tools Corey LeBleu (Jan 07)
- Re: Newbie Hacker Tools Yann Autissier (Jan 07)
- Re: Newbie Hacker Tools Leif Ericksen (Jan 07)
- RE: Newbie Hacker Tools Edmond Chow (Jan 07)
- Re: Newbie Hacker Tools Spigga (Jan 10)
- Re: Newbie Hacker Tools James Eaton-Lee (Jan 10)
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- RE: Newbie Hacker Tools Brunner, Mark (Jan 07)
- Re: Newbie Hacker Tools H Carvey (Jan 07)
- Re: Newbie Hacker Tools bernie (Jan 06)