Re: [pacnog] Tools for Testing of Firewalls

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja@uoregon.edu>]

Hervey Allen wrote:
> Alex Abraham wrote:
>> How safe are these tools?  Do we need to do our own checks to ensure that
>> are working?
> 
> The reality is that most of the tools I saw at:
> 
> http://packetstormsecurity.nl/DoS/
> 
> come as source code in perl or C. You should be able to read the code
> and understand what it's doing to the point that you are satisfied that
> the attack being generated is what you expect. So, yes, you'll want to
> verify for yourself that they work as expected.

bearing in mind of course that you're chasing a moving target, testing
yesterday's applications against today's dos tools in hopes that the
will protect against tomorrows attacks.

> Cheers,
>     - Hervey
> 
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