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April 5, 1995: Security Administrator tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN) released

1995- The program is called the Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks. But you may call it SATAN. The Perl written program – Written by Dan Famer and Wietse Venema –  was released to help network admins find vulnerabilities in their remote systems. There was a lot of controversy over the tool and it’s release, since it was the first user friendly tool.SATAN was never updated since, and has been replaced with: Nessus and SAINT.

Wikazine – Full show notes for April 5

• AOL unveils Netscape Navagator v. 6
• Honeywell MicroSystem 6/10
• Apple releases Boot Camp for dual booting Mac

Book: Protecting Networks with SATAN

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Article by Jeffrey Powers @geekazine

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