Security Tools More Harmful Than Helpful?

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday April 8, 2004 @11:57PM from the made-too-well dept.

soblasted writes "With the recent 2.0 release of the Metasploit Framework, people are wondering if security tools like it do more good than harm. This article attempts to answer the question. The legitimate use of the framework is for security researchers to use in exploit testing and development.It will run on any OS with Perl, and includes a CLI and web GUI, along with many ready to run exploits and payload modules. With HP also developing systems to preemptively attack their own networks, has this become acceptable?" This issue reminds me of the first release of SATAN and the uproar it caused.

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Wrong by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-09 00:01 · Score: 1, Offtopic

DDoS requires more than one host to be "Distributed".
Re:I've seen this happen.. by vudufixit · 2004-04-09 04:21 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Hey, mods - thanks for the Redundant!
Did it ever occur to you that maybe I had typed my comment at the same time or slightly before the other one appeared?