[761] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re:Netcat probing, logs and detection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex French)
Sat Nov 23 15:06:01 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:08:25 +0100
To: ids@uow.edu.au
From: alex@support.ie (Alex French)
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au
At 2:32 pm 18/11/96, adamsb@un.org is rumored to have typed:
> 1) Does anyone have any experience using Hobbit's Netcat program
> to probe system vulnerabilities?
>
Yeah, seems to work, but it's cruder than satan.... it basically just does
portscans, where satan can do much much more.
Netcat isn't really a probing tool, although it can be used as such.
Alex French
Head of Rocket Science
Club Internet
