[AusNOG] Pen Testing Tools

[Robert Hudson]

For anyone doubting that you need to seek official approval before starting
to test things...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz#Intel_case

On 1 December 2016 at 09:52, Bob Purdon <bobp at purdon.id.au> wrote:

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> Ø  Be aware that running penetration tools just to see what happens can
> lead to spectacular outages and questions of who authorised this.
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> Absolutely – I have seen something as simple as an nmap port scan tickle a
> latent bug and cause widespread service interruptions.
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