Re: How to read port scans

[spaceork () DHP COM (spaceork)]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Phil Curran wrote:

> I am new to auditing/reading port scanning documents.  Are there any
> documents/books/urls that would be able to help me in understanding what I am
> reading/trying to analyze?  Any help is greatly appreciated.

The book "Network Intrusion Detection: An Analyst's Handbook" by Stephen
Northcutt is a good start in understanding the various network probes you
are bound to encoutner. And it is *fairly* recent too.

        -spaceork

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of
 producing random digits is, of course, in a
 state of sin."
 -John Von Neumann
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