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View Poll Results: Security App of the Year
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nmap
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197 |
56.45% |
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snort
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54 |
15.47% |
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Nessus
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52 |
14.90% |
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chkrootkit
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23 |
6.59% |
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TripWire
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23 |
6.59% |
11-15-2003, 12:23 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,514
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Security App of the Year
This is a tough category as not all these tools are directly comparable.
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11-15-2003, 10:23 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: On the Beaches of Super Sunny Southern San Clemente, California USA
Distribution: Slackware - duh!
Posts: 513
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Re: Security App of the Year
Quote:
Originally posted by jeremy
This is a tough category as not all these tools are directly comparable.
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Yes, it's an extremely hard call - mainly because most of the apps you've got listed are used together. Others that aren't mentioned are the SATAN evolution of products by Dan Farmer et al, Portsentry (another psionics great), and the infallable tcpdump  |
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11-16-2003, 02:52 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Manchester, England, UK, The World....
Distribution: Gentoo/SuSE 9.0
Posts: 291
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i voted for nmap but isn't ethereal technically a security app?
i used it to grab the IP of my AIM buddy (yes, there's only one, the rest are on M$N)
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11-16-2003, 11:05 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Arizona
Posts: 2
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No kismet love??
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11-17-2003, 03:50 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Long Island, NY
Distribution: Gentoo Unstable (what a misnomer)
Posts: 380
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I went with nmap b/c I use not just for
security auditing but regular network
diagnostic and administration tasks so
useful.
Also what about:
StackGuard & Bastille
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11-17-2003, 11:51 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: Gentoo for me, Slackware for servers
Posts: 27
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nmap, cause helps trinity to get all us out of the matrix?  Just kidding.
Nessus, cause know what can be done to your net is the first step on making it more secure. |
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11-18-2003, 01:27 PM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Distribution: RH 8
Posts: 246
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no netcat?????
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11-18-2003, 04:24 PM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Slackware / CentOS / Mint / Ubuntu
Posts: 42
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I voted Nessus 'cause it looked lonely, but really it is a very tough one as I use them all. :-/
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11-19-2003, 11:28 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: California
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 172
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Ettercap needs to be up there on that list.  |
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11-20-2003, 11:47 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: New England, USA
Distribution: Redhat
Posts: 4
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IMO this would be best broken up into a few catagories - maybe by what it would be used for (assesment, monitoring, configuring). For example, I just love fwBuilder (coming from a comfy checkpoint GUI world) but thats not on there. I love nMap for scanning, but Nessus for vulnerabilities. Ah well. Through mine in for the air-gap then...
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11-25-2003, 02:39 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 102
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It would be a good idea to include Bastille - a fairly easy way to lock your system down (at least enough to keep the script kiddies out.)
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12-15-2003, 11:04 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Distribution: Debian, Gentoo
Posts: 23
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Go nmap!!
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12-29-2003, 03:38 PM
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Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Belgium
Distribution: Gentoo, Debian
Posts: 44
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nmap of course
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01-04-2004, 03:53 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: teddy bears Land
Distribution: Slackware 10
Posts: 176
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No Gshields???? I have used it, in Mandrake and Slackware and works very , very fine. For those who doesn't know what gshields is, is a Firewall for Linux. and you can configure it for all your needs.
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