[Full-Disclosure] automated vulnerability testing

Jonathan A. Zdziarski jonathan at nuclearelephant.com
Mon Dec 1 18:47:01 GMT 2003


> Quite a flaw in logic there, I'm sure you meant;

Actually I was referring to the general laziness of sysadmins who would
rather throw up a firewall in lieu of (instead of in addition to):

- Performing general OS hardening
- Reconfiguring daemons that don't need to run as root
- Chroot'ing processes such as pop3 and rpcbind
- Shutting down processes that don't need to run at all
- Installing IDS and local filtering
- Running tools such as tripwire to make sure their system hasn't
already been hacked
- Performing any type of system auditing

the list goes on






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