[lug] What do you do about hackers (in the current sense of uninvited obnoxious intruders)

[Peter Hutnick]

On Sunday 14 April 2002 02:12 pm, Paul Bille wrote:
> >> ran 89 probes in the minute
> >
> >  Sounds like nessus or something similar.
>
> I'm not familiar with nessus.  Is that the name of a root kit?

No.  It is a vulnerability scanner.  It is a /great/ tool for overworked 
network admins to find the vast majority of soft spots in their network with 
very little work.

'Course when you apply any security tool to someone else's network it isn't 
good . . .

-Peter