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Re: hacker detection tool in Perl
by arhuman (Vicar) on Jan 15, 2002 at 19:21 UTC
    If you're talking about vuln scanner, I'd suggest :
    nessus (my favourite one), or even whisker (written in Perl)...

    If you're talking about detecting intrusion, a search with IDS as keyword will bring you tons of results :
    Portsentry, Snort, Hostsentry, NFR, Tripwire, Toby...

    Anyway a list of excellent security tools is available here (thanks to fyodor).

    "Only Bad Coders Code Badly In Perl" (OBC2BIP)
Re: hacker detection tool in Perl
by Beatnik (Parson) on Jan 15, 2002 at 19:29 UTC
Re: hacker detection tool in Perl
by derby (Abbot) on Jan 15, 2002 at 19:04 UTC
    ATS,

    There are a few, check out freshmeat for general and a specific one would be saint

    -derby