NODE ccc7a21eRe: that internet security scanner
doug@netcom.com (Doug Merritt)Thu, 7 Oct 93 23:09:22 PDT
Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org> said:
>anyone actually seen that thing? (to refresh: CERT posted some warning
>about a security scanner for Internet systems that might be the evil work
>of themthere hackers so you just better delete it, etc etc.)
(A) The "evil" in question was posted to comp.sources.misc (or some other
similarly obvious group). (B) The advisory was about as neutral as such
a thing can be.
Further comment fails me.
Doug
NODE 31001e17Re: that internet security scanner
khijol!erc (Ed Carp)Fri, 8 Oct 93 01:49:21 PDT
> Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org> said:
> >anyone actually seen that thing? (to refresh: CERT posted some warning
> >about a security scanner for Internet systems that might be the evil work
> >of themthere hackers so you just better delete it, etc etc.)
>
> (A) The "evil" in question was posted to comp.sources.misc (or some other
> similarly obvious group). (B) The advisory was about as neutral as such
> a thing can be.
It was, indeed. If anyone wants a copy, they can email me. It's 19K,
gzipped and uuencoded.
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