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Security Tools More Harmful Than Helpful?

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    DDoS requires more than one host to be "Distributed".

    1. Re:Wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It was a typo

      both of them

      oops

  2. Re:That's EASTER BUNNY to you! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    'tis the season! :P

  3. The Answer (and it's not 42) by richie2000 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    More helpful, I'd say.

    If there's nothing else, I'll just go back to playing Far Cry instead of working then, shall I? Right. OK.

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  4. Re:Duh by Himring · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Any tool can be used incorrectly.

    Use your tool on a woman who's not your wife, and if she find out, it's no longer a happy marriage, but she's hired a high-priced lawyer and you're headed for the ringer....

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  5. Re:I've seen this happen.. by vudufixit · · 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?