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Re: vulnerability scanners not effective? or just a false-positive?
From: "Joel Jose" <joeljose420 () 1net gr>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:49:06 +0530
well yeah, agreed its a vuln not a threat. My mistake, actally i just spelt it wrong, a twist of toungue?.. i always considered it as a vuln not a threat. nyways thanks for pointing. well in my tests, only 2 subdomains, suffered from this vuln, others had been protected from directory traversal. So may be it was an overlook, or it could have been done by different admins. I have informed them of the situation. I acknowledge that security through obscurity is just counterproductive, but what i was meaning is that : The banner is not a thing which is "required" to be open. We are not obscuring anything by removing the banner. Its just a safe practise. Should we be lazy, to overlook it we might be exposing ourselves to a pinch more of chances. Obscurity in my definition becomes dangerous when we rely on it for protection. We arent trying to protect anything here, by not displaying the banner. As someone rightly pointed out, there are other parameters that an experienced person can always resort to for service detections. By removing the banner we are just trying to comply with safe practises, and may be "narrow" down our attacker to a competent one. joel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This List Sponsored by: Cenzic Concerned about Web Application Security? As attacks through web applications continue to rise, you need to proactively protect your applications from hackers. Cenzic has the most comprehensive solutions to meet your application security penetration testing and vulnerability management needs. You have an option to go with a managed service (Cenzic ClickToSecure) or an enterprise software (Cenzic Hailstorm). Download FREE whitepaper on how a managed service can help you: http://www.cenzic.com/forms/ec.php?pubid=10025 And, now for a limited time we can do a FREE audit for you to confirm your results from other product. Contact us at request () cenzic com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- vulnerability scanners not effective? or just a false-positive? Joel Jose (Mar 29)
- Re: vulnerability scanners not effective? or just a false-positive? James Davis (Mar 30)
- Re: vulnerability scanners not effective? or just a false-positive? Pete Herzog (Mar 30)
- Re: vulnerability scanners not effective? or just a false-positive? Kyle Maxwell (Mar 30)
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- RE: vulnerability scanners not effective? or just a false-positive? David Ball (Mar 29)
- RE: vulnerability scanners not effective? or just a false-positive? Craig Wright (Mar 31)
- Re: vulnerability scanners not effective? or just a false-positive? Pete Herzog (Mar 31)
- Re: vulnerability scanners not effective? or just a false-positive? Joel Jose (Mar 31)