Nmap Hackers: Re: fooling nmap

[Lance Spitzner <lance () ksni net>]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Bep Verberk wrote:

> BTW, anyone working on an ID  tool that fingerprints nmap ?  Something that
> would identify an nmap scan, the type of scan, the version of nmap, the OS the
> scan was run from, etc.
Marty Roesch and Fyodor are competing on this one.  Marty develops a signature
for snort, Fyodor defeats it.  It all depends who has the lead in the arms
race.  By the way, snort is a handly little IDS/sniffer utility, you can find
it at 

http://www.clark.net/~roesch/security.html

for the latest signatures (including nmap), check out

http://www.whitehats.com

Lance Spitzner
http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/papers.html