Re: [SLUG] site security checkers

From: Matt Miller (mmiller1@mptotalcare.com)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 13:16:27 EDT

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On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 12:35, rhatman@earthlink.net wrote:
> I know this has been covered before, but...
> It is always good to be current on security.
> What are the web sites we can use to check our own sites for holes? Do we use
> other access to have our site tested or can we initiate it from the site being
> tested?
> TIA Larry :-)

I personally like nmap and nessus.
I use both tools to test my work servers from my home machine and
vice-versa.
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
http://www.nessus.org/index2.html

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