Meeting topic - security test

[Lowell Premer]

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>From: steve doerr <sdoerr at qni.com>
>To: kclug at kclug.org
>Subject: kclug - Meeting topic - security test
>Date: Wed, Mar 22, 2000, 8:41 PM

Will this work against a dynamic address (dhcp)?

Lowell

>Hi everyone, I just got an idea.  KCLUG security scanning service.  I
>just installed  SATAN (Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing
>Networks), which runs on any Linux/UNIX based system.  If anyone wants
>to have their system scanned for openings (I would like to have a
>friendly scan myself), you could just post a message to the list w/ the
>subject "security scan" and put only your current IP address in the
>message body.  Then any member who could and would be willing to do
>scans could do that and reply to you alone, with the results.
>
>Some questions:
>
>Would this be useful?
>Would others be willing to do scans as they showed up on the list?
>How should something like this work?
>
>What does everyone think?