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Nmap Security Tool Survey
spring writes "Every so often, the author of everyone's favorite network reconnaissance tool, nmap, runs a survey to determine which security-oriented software products are most popular. This year's tool survey was just released, and it contains some interesting results. Old favorites like Nessus, Snort, Netcat, and Ethereal made the list, of course. SAINT and SARA are still around. But a number of new tools appeared this year, like Windows-only GFI LANguard, SuperScan, and Cain & Abel. Nikto and Kismet demonstrate the growing importance of wireless networks. The survey contains many good tools. Certainly worth a read."
I's a needing more hos
Too bad it doesn't have your name on it ;)
"Certainly worth a read."
Michael, you're getting almost as bad as... COMMANDER TACO! "Read" is NOT a noun, so you don't use an article as you would with one.
Warning: Spoiler in topic!
Not kidding, this is serious!
it sucks. If you want to totally secure, none of these can do it, they do help and prevent most attacks but they do have flaws. To be totally secure you would have to isolate your computer from all networks.
In other words no internet; I told you it sucks
checking whether RMS is a dirty hippie... yes
checking whether RMS has taken a shower the latest month... no
Eric MASSON, where is 5dwm
About 70-80% of an "average" human poop consists of water. Water is absorbed out of fecal material as it passes through the intestine, so the longer a poop resides inside before emerging, the drier it will be.
Much of the remaining portion of the poop, about 1/3 is composed of dead bacteria.
These microcorpses come from the intestinal garden of microorganisms that assist us in the digestion of our food.
Another 1/3 of the poop mass is made of stuff that we find
indigestible, like cellulose, for instance.
This indigestible material is called "fiber," and is useful in getting the poop to move along through the intestine, perhaps because it provides traction.
The remaining portion of poop is a mixture of fats such as
cholesterol, inorganic salts like phosphates, live bacteria, dead
cells and mucus from the lining of the intestine, and protein.
Poop has an odor ("stinks") as a result of the products of bacterial action. Bacteria produce smelly, organic compounds such as indole, skatole, and mercaptans, and the inorganic gas hydrogen sulfide. These are the same compounds that give farts their odor.
The color comes mainly from bilirubin, a pigment that arises from the breakdown of red blood cells in the liver and bone marrow. The actual metabolic pathway of bilirubin and its byproducts in the body is very complicated, so we will simply say that a lot of it ends up in the intestine, where it is further modified by bacterial action. But the color itself comes from iron. Iron in hemoglobin in red blood cells gives blood its red color, and iron in the waste product bilirubin gives rise to its brown color.
Poop is mostly shades of brown or yellow, but other colors can arise under certain circumstances. For example, someone with a bleeding ulcer might have tarry black poop from the presence of partially digested blood. Bleeding in the intestine, from an anal fissure or split, for example, can stain the poop red. Some illnesses in babies gives them green or even blue-green poop. But another source of blue poop in children is more innocent: it can come from eating a concentrated source of blue food coloring such as ice cream. Intense red food coloring can produce bright red poop. Sometimes brightly colored foods pass through the gut almost unchanged, and the poop may
be speckled with bright red fragments such as pimentos, or bright yellow kernels of corn.
Many animals eat poop on a regular basis. These include rabbits, rodents, gorillas, many insects such as dung beetles and flies, and yes, dogs. (Keep that in mind the next time a dog wants to lick you!) Herbivores such as rabbits and rodents eat their own poop because their diet of plants is hard to digest efficiently, and they have to make two passes at it to get everything out of the meal. This is equivalent to a cow chewing its cud, only cows are able to re-eat their food without having to poop it out first. Another reason why animals eat poop is that poop contains vitamins produced by their intestinal bacteria. The animal is unable to absorb the vitamins through the intestinal wall, but can get at them by eating the poop. Another reason that animals such as dogs and flies eat poop is that
poop contains a certain amount of protein. Dogs are particularly fond of cat poop because cat poop is high in protein.
People all have eaten poop at one point or another. One of the main ways that diseases and parasites spread is through the consumption of food and water contaminated with feces. This happens because people don't wash their hands carefully after pooping or changing a diaper or scratching their butt. It can also happen through careless disposal of diapers.
You can definitely get sick from eating poop, even in minute
quantities! Although urine emerges sterile from the body (unless the person has an infection), poop emerges loaded with bacteria and sometimes other life forms. Many diseases, including food poisoning, cholera and typhus, are spread by fecal contamination. Many par
Huh?
Where'd they get the name nikto? It sounds like the Russian word for nobody.
On the same page is a link to a tool called YaHa. Why the capital H? Makes it kinda look like "I'm on" in Russian, but I don't know what that would mean.