"SATAN" SECURITY SOFTWARE
Mark S. Roed (roedm@CC.IMS.DISA.MIL)
Wed, 15 Mar 95 18:04:46 EST
I'm Looking for list of fixes to prevent penetration of Nets by SATAN
before its released on the WELL.
roedm@cc.ims.disa.mil
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MITNICK STOLE "SATAN" SECURITY SOFTWARE
SATAN software (an acronym standing for Security Administrator Tool for
Analyzing Networks), which was developed by Dan Farmer of Silicon Graphics
to scan thousands of host computers on the Internet for security
vulnerabilities, was stolen by Kevin Mitnick, the computer cracker who was
arrested last month by the FBI and is now under indictment for 23 counts of
fraud involving computer use. Mitnick broke into Farmer's account on the
WELL, a California Internet service provider. Farmer says he has no way of
knowing whether Mitnick shared copies of SATAN over the Internet. (New
York Times 3/12/95 Sec.3, p.11; 3/11/95 p.30)