Penetration Testing: Re: Port Scanners / Sniffers Review

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:47:03AM +0530, Sam wrote:
> I would be interested in knowing how penetration testers rate various
> port scanners and packet sniffers?
>
> What would be the top five tools you would recommend?
Last week in an Nmap users survey I asked exactly that (except for up
to 8 tools).  I was amazed that 1854 people responded and I found the
results pretty interesting.  So I wrote up a page describing the top
75:

http://www.insecure.org/tools.html

Cheers,
Fyodor




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