Penetration Testing: RE: [in] Re: Research on penetration testing?

["Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>]

SecurIT Informatique Inc.  wrote:
> Maybe you could try to make an automated 
> tools that will perform all these steps automatically (the 
> tools does the info gathering, checks in a database for 
> exploits in this info, then applies the exploit), but I don't 
> know if these kind of software already exists.
<snip>

Core Impact - an almost totally automatic system, even better than H.D.
Moore's metasploit that is also very amazing and totally free.  From what I
hear, Mr. Moore is something of a genius.  With metasploit an example of his
work, I would tend to agree.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, CNE, MCSE+I, CCDA
Information Security Engineer 
DP Solutions

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