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RE: ideal OS distro for network scanning?
From: "Lyal Collins" <lyal.collins () key2it com au>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:30:25 +1100
For what its worth, I've had consistent results across freebsd, redhat 7, 8 and 9, fedora 2 and 3, suse 9.3 and 10, as well as knoppix-based liveCDs over the past 4-5 years. lyal -----Original Message----- From: offset [mailto:offset () svcroot net] Sent: Monday, 16 January 2006 3:58 AM To: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: ideal OS distro for network scanning? Greetings, Looking for information on network mapping relative performance and accuracy between different opensource OS distributions (ie. linux based (fedora, redhat), bsd based (openbsd, freebsd)). I like OpenBSD's security paranoia (dont want the scanner being compromised), but I also understand that linux can be hardened as well, so my second concern is the underlying OS skewing the results of a network scan and the ability for the OS to stay out of the way of the scan results. Regards and thanks in advance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Audit your website security with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner: Hackers are concentrating their efforts on attacking applications on your website. Up to 75% of cyber attacks are launched on shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content etc. Firewalls, SSL and locked-down servers are futile against web application hacking. Check your website for vulnerabilities to SQL injection, Cross site scripting and other web attacks before hackers do! Download Trial at: http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/pen-test_050831 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Audit your website security with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner: Hackers are concentrating their efforts on attacking applications on your website. Up to 75% of cyber attacks are launched on shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content etc. Firewalls, SSL and locked-down servers are futile against web application hacking. Check your website for vulnerabilities to SQL injection, Cross site scripting and other web attacks before hackers do! Download Trial at: http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/pen-test_050831 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- ideal OS distro for network scanning? offset (Jan 15)
- Re: ideal OS distro for network scanning? Andrew Simmons (Jan 15)
- RE: ideal OS distro for network scanning? Lyal Collins (Jan 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: ideal OS distro for network scanning? Michael Scheidell (Jan 15)
- Re: ideal OS distro for network scanning? wrhaynes (Jan 15)
- Re: ideal OS distro for network scanning? Pete Herzog (Jan 16)