
and hackers use Perl for a wide variety of reasons—commercial Web-based applications,
task management tool kits, complex objects and classes for biological engineering, simple
CGI Web page counters, and security tools. Popular security tools that use the Perl engine
include Whisker, Narrow Security Scanner, and Wellenreiter, in addition to the plethora of
available exploits created in Perl that leverage remote and local vulnerabilities.
Perl is the scripting language for most of the security community owing to its plat-
form-neutral implementation, easy socket structure, ability to utilize binary code, and
overall acceptance. Between GNU’s Perl and ...