Re: security issues

2017-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 27 August 2017 12:22:30 Mike McClain wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 04:35:21PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have had the ultimate revenge on those who were enemies at one > > time, I've outlived the turkeys without doing anything to hasten > > their demise. ;-) > > I thought that

Re: security issues

2017-08-27 Thread Mike McClain
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 04:35:21PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have had the ultimate revenge on those who were enemies at one time, > I've outlived the turkeys without doing anything to hasten their > demise. ;-) > I thought that was worthy of being a tagline. Hope you don't mind. Mike --

Re: security issues

2017-08-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 August 2017 15:43:40 Brian wrote: > [Lots of snipping] > > On Sat 26 Aug 2017 at 15:25:53 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 26 August 2017 14:51:41 Brian wrote: > > > That's what you think! But while you are slumbering, she is > > > emailing friends and talking with Donald

Re: security issues

2017-08-26 Thread Brian
[Lots of snipping] On Sat 26 Aug 2017 at 15:25:53 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 26 August 2017 14:51:41 Brian wrote: > > > That's what you think! But while you are slumbering, she is emailing > > friends and talking with Donald on Twitter. Never underestimate a > > woman's ability to

Re: security issues

2017-08-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 August 2017 15:25:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > install any of the firewall type stuff, dd-wrt in the router is > > > the best guard dog. I've been running some form of it for 15 or > > > more years, and have not been breached. > > > > Isn't dd-wrt only suitable for particular

Re: security issues

2017-08-26 Thread Gene Heskett
gt; > alguna empresa que de soporte. > > > > > > > > Muchas gracias, Roberto > > > > > > > > > > > > Good afternoon, I have been debian 8.9 user for 2 years. > > > > I have security issues that force me to reinstall the

Re: security issues

2017-08-26 Thread Brian
gt; He conocido herramientas como: > > > Lynis, openval, nessus, grsecurity,apparmor, selinux, etc > > > Si puede alguien con conocimientos de seguridad ayudarme. O hay > > > alguna empresa que de soporte. > > > > > > Muchas gracias, Roberto > >

Re: security issues

2017-08-26 Thread Gene Heskett
> > Si puede alguien con conocimientos de seguridad ayudarme. O hay > > alguna empresa que de soporte. > > > > Muchas gracias, Roberto > > > > > > Good afternoon, I have been debian 8.9 user for 2 years. > > I have security issues that force me to reinstal

Re: security issues

2017-08-26 Thread TheFox
>> empresa que de soporte. >> >> Muchas gracias, Roberto >> >> >> Good afternoon, I have been debian 8.9 user for 2 years. >> I have security issues that force me to reinstall the system often, once a >> year. >> I have read documents and help

Re: security issues

2017-08-26 Thread TheFox
curity,apparmor, selinux, etc > Si puede alguien con conocimientos de seguridad ayudarme. O hay alguna > empresa que de soporte. > > Muchas gracias, Roberto > > > Good afternoon, I have been debian 8.9 user for 2 years. > I have security issues that force me to reinstall th

Re: security issues

2017-08-26 Thread Nicolas George
Le nonidi 9 fructidor, an CCXXV, Dejan Jocic a écrit : > 10. I'm sure that there is more 0. Think about against what risks you want to protect yourself. Security is always a compromise with convenience. The only absolute security is when you do nothing with no computer at all, but that is not

Re: security issues

2017-08-26 Thread Dejan Jocic
. > > Muchas gracias, Roberto > > > Good afternoon, I have been debian 8.9 user for 2 years. > I have security issues that force me to reinstall the system often, once a > year. What security issues? > I have read documents and help to improve security. What documents?

security issues

2017-08-26 Thread R Calleja
. I have security issues that force me to reinstall the system often, once a year. I have read documents and help to improve security. But I am not a user with advanced systems knowledge. My goal is to get a safe work station. I have known tools like: Lynis, openval, nessus, grsecurity, apparmor

security issues

2017-08-26 Thread R Calleja
. I have security issues that force me to reinstall the system often, once a year. I have read documents and help to improve security. But I am not a user with advanced systems knowledge. My goal is to get a safe work station. I have known tools like: Lynis, openval, nessus, grsecurity, apparmor

Re: [OT] WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

2014-06-17 Thread Gerardo Diez García
El 03/06/14 20:52, Felix Perez escribió: El día 3 de junio de 2014, 9:57, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com escribió: El Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:39:16 +0200, Gerardo Diez García escribió: El 03/06/14 09:54, Sergio Villalba escribió: http://www. http://www.truecrypt.orgtruecrypt.org

[OT] WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

2014-06-03 Thread Sergio Villalba
http://www. http://www.truecrypt.orgtruecrypt.org http://www.truecrypt.org http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ http://www.genbeta.com/seguridad/truecrypt-y-su-misteriosa-desaparicion

Re: [OT] WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

2014-06-03 Thread Gerardo Diez García
El 03/06/14 09:54, Sergio Villalba escribió: http://www. http://www.truecrypt.orgtruecrypt.org http://www.truecrypt.org http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ http://www.genbeta.com/seguridad/truecrypt-y-su-misteriosa-desaparicion La historia esta me ha dejado un poco fuera de juego

Re: [OT] WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

2014-06-03 Thread Camaleón
El Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:39:16 +0200, Gerardo Diez García escribió: El 03/06/14 09:54, Sergio Villalba escribió: http://www. http://www.truecrypt.orgtruecrypt.org http://www.truecrypt.org http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/

Re: [OT] WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

2014-06-03 Thread Felix Perez
El día 3 de junio de 2014, 9:57, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com escribió: El Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:39:16 +0200, Gerardo Diez García escribió: El 03/06/14 09:54, Sergio Villalba escribió: http://www. http://www.truecrypt.orgtruecrypt.org http://www.truecrypt.org http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/07 23:05, Erik Persson wrote: [snip] As long as nobody is interested in exploiting the konq bugs and everyone wants to exploit the firefox bugs, I will be more secure using konq even if there are more flaws in konq. Security when using a

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-27 Thread Erik Persson
is of course that there is no significant difference in the ratio of reported security issues to discovered security issues, and I can't see any reason those should differ. I can't see any reason why they _should_ differ either, but it is entirely possible that they do and that's the point. It boils

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-27 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
And, obviously, if security is your only standard, my pet schnauzer is a better browser than either of these. Functionality must come into play as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
we're getting off track of my original point and rather than continue this festival of delights ;) I am going restate my original statement and attempt to demonstrate one more time what I meant originally. And then I'll be done. I'm sure you will either accept what I've said or counter it, but

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:36:36AM -0700, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: And, obviously, if security is your only standard, my pet schnauzer is a can the dog block popups? apt-get install schnauzer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-27 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:35:30PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Note that I have no bias regarding kong and iceweasel. Also, I'm more than willing to embrace a counter example. OpenBSD has had two remote holes in the base install in more than 10 years. And I'm willing to wager that

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-27 Thread John Hasler
Andrew Sackville-West writes: apt-get install schnauzer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package schnauzer The dog is non-free due to patents. You have to have a license from Pfizer. -- John Hasler -- To

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread John Hasler
Doug writes: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. I'm curious as to why this is. Does anyone have any ideas? How many people are looking for holes in Konq or Links2? -- John

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:13:48PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. Aside from the fact that one

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/07 14:01, Andrew J. Barr wrote: On 7/26/07, Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Douglas. Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Erik Persson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. I'm curious as to why this is. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm on dialup and switched to Konq for this very reason

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Erik Persson
it _could_ be that this is because there actually _are_ fewer security problems, but it could _also_ be because no one has _found_ or reported problems. There's an important distinction there. The assumption is of course that there is no significant difference in the ratio of reported security issues

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:52:07PM +0200, Erik Persson wrote: Anyhow, the basic fact that there is fewer security alerts in Konq makes this a more secure browser, whether this maybe is because only of a smaller user base or not. I'm sorry, and i hate to argue with people, but this last

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Doug writes: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. I'm curious as to why this is. Does anyone have any ideas? How many people are looking for holes in Konq

why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. I'm curious as to why this is. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm on dialup and switched to Konq for this very reason but sometimes I have a website

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/26/07, Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Douglas. Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. Aside from the fact that one software

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:06:11PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:13:48PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Douglas. Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 20:06: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:13:48PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Douglas. Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. Aside from the fact that one software really can be more secure than another one

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/07 15:52, Erik Persson wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. I'm curious as to why

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
that there is no significant difference in the ratio of reported security issues to discovered security issues, and I can't see any reason those should differ. I can't see any reason why they _should_ differ either, but it is entirely possible that they do and that's the point. It boils down

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Erik Persson
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/07 15:52, Erik Persson wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. I'm curious

Re: PHP security issues?

2006-04-09 Thread David Clymer
myself php so that I can make use of the service if need be. I keep seeing posts, however, about security issues with badly written php scripts. Can someone point me to some info explaining what the security issues are so that I don't end up writing scripts that will be a security risk. I

Re: PHP security issues? (Thanks)

2006-04-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
now going to teach myself php so that I can make use of the service if need be. I keep seeing posts, however, about security issues with badly written php scripts. Can someone point me to some info explaining what the security issues are so that I don't end up writing scripts

PHP security issues?

2006-04-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
be. I keep seeing posts, however, about security issues with badly written php scripts. Can someone point me to some info explaining what the security issues are so that I don't end up writing scripts that will be a security risk. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always

Re: security issues with apache!

2006-03-12 Thread Enver ALTIN
Hi, Florian Reitmeir wrote: I had a similar encounter about 2 months ago. The intruder exploited a PHP script that was poorly written. If you check your http access logs, you will most likely find an entry about the PHP that is been exploited. Once you find the offending PHP script, you can

Re: security issues with apache!

2006-03-12 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:02:13AM +0200, Enver ALTIN wrote: If you have to leave some writable folders for Apache user, say, /tmp, moving /tmp to another partition/filesystem and mounting it with noexec option would prevent most harm /any/ PHP script can cause. Not true. Several of

security issues with apache!

2006-03-07 Thread Petter Senften
Hi I'm not completely new to Debian or Linux, but I wouldn't classify myself as a battlescarred sysadmin just yet :) Anyways. My problem is security-related, and I hope that I'm posting to the correct list as well as hoping that someone can help me out here. Recently I've noticed that my

Re: security issues with apache!

2006-03-07 Thread Josep Serrano
Hello Petter The actual list for security issues is debian-security. The address of this list its on the CC. We can now leave debian-user and switch our discussion into debian-security. This is quite hole! Can't believe there's such a big spot in Apache / Sarge and we didn't heard of it. Can

Re: security issues with apache!

2006-03-07 Thread Ismail
Hi I'm not completely new to Debian or Linux, but I wouldn't classify myself as a battlescarred sysadmin just yet :) Anyways. My problem is security-related, and I hope that I'm posting to the correct list as well as hoping that someone can help me out here. Recently I've noticed that my

Re: security issues with apache!

2006-03-07 Thread Florian Reitmeir
I had a similar encounter about 2 months ago. The intruder exploited a PHP script that was poorly written. If you check your http access logs, you will most likely find an entry about the PHP that is been exploited. Once you find the offending PHP script, you can either remove it or add

Re: security issues with apache!

2006-03-07 Thread Charles
- Original Message - From: Petter Senften [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:23 AM Subject: security issues with apache! [deleted for brevity] Now, like I said - I'm not a pro, I'm trying to learn by doing. Unfortunately how

security issues

2005-11-15 Thread Adam Hardy
My security precautions for my webserver are probably what you might call 'fair-to-middling'. Anyway, I'm trying to work out if I should be worried by what I'm seeing in my logs. I've got a webserver at a hosting service so I can't just unplug my machine from the net. All I've done so far is

Re: security issues

2005-11-15 Thread Bill Thompson
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:05:39 + Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think the attacker gained access, but I would like some sort of mechanism that would cause the OS to email me whenever someone logs in - which is going to be less than once a day. Take a look at the programs

new users shell set to /bin/false - are there any security issues?

2004-08-29 Thread kev
i'm using a pretty much standard debian stable machine... i need to allow users FTP only access - i can create them with #adduser --shell /bin/false username in the /etc/proftpd.conf file i can set RequireValidShell off so that the proftpd server allows the users access even though they

security issues

2001-01-10 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi, I use Debian at home and -- as soon as I get a break! -- am going to move my at-work system over from SuSE to Debian. One notable hole (a bad one) in my barely-year-old Linux knowledge base is security. Since I deal with disgruntled IRC chatters and script kiddies nearly every day, this is

RE: security issues

2001-01-10 Thread Jason Mogavero
whitepapers and FAQs as well as discussion forums. Jason -Original Message- From: Glenn Becker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 2:55 PM To: Debian Users List Subject: security issues Hi, I use Debian at home and -- as soon as I get a break! -- am going to move

Re: security issues

2001-01-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Well, you could always subscribe to debian-security and debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org, if you haven't already. Just lurking on those lists will keep you up to date on current security trends. The people there are generally pretty good about answering on-topic questions as well. noah

Sudo and other root-based security issues

1999-10-19 Thread David J. Kanter
From what I've read, I'm relatively pertrified to use my root account unless absolutely necessary, like configuring X or setting up my MTA. (There are only two users here, me and root.) But since some commands require root access, and it's a pain to su root all the time, how secure is it to run

RE: Sudo and other root-based security issues

1999-10-19 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Actually, how a cracker will typically try to get in is by exploiting security holes in deamons that listen to network ports. These programs USUALLY run as root. Logging in as root presents little-to-no additional risk. If your system security is weak, logging-in as root wont cause much

Re: Sudo and other root-based security issues

1999-10-19 Thread John Hasler
David J. Kanter writes: But since some commands require root access, and it's a pain to su root all the time, how secure is it to run sudo on something like wvdial or slrnpull? wvdial should not require root if your user is in group dip (wvdial may also require 'dialout': pon does not). I've

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-14 Thread ioannis
:-) In this case you may as well post your root passwd in Yahoo. On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 09:02:59PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi, Although I am not familiar at all with the inner workings of nfs the description below indicates a risk that an unauthorised client may read files

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-12 Thread ioannis
The traditional unix nfs filesystem is _insecure_ : the i-node generation number, which is part of the file handles, is easy to guess. -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-12 Thread Jim Pick
Ioannis Tambouras wrote: The traditional unix nfs filesystem is _insecure_ : the i-node generation number, which is part of the file handles, is easy to guess. I'm curious. How would an attack on nfs using this method proceed? Cheers, - Jim pgpYNozTVDntA.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-12 Thread ioannis
I could resist to your request, Jim, and appear before you with further clarifications, for you are an active contributor in the Debian project and we are quite fortunate to have you here among us; moreover, there in an ancient saying, that hard is the knowledge of the good. And the

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-12 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Although I am not familiar at all with the inner workings of nfs the description below indicates a risk that an unauthorised client may read files on the specific directory which is being exported by nfs read only. However my worry is not whether somebody else will read the files which in

Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-11 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering whether there is anything to worry about if I let another machine nfs mount, read only, root-squash, one directory on my machine. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks George

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-11 Thread joost witteveen
Hi, I was wondering whether there is anything to worry about if I let another machine nfs mount, read only, root-squash, one directory on my machine. Any help will be greatly appreciated. The only problem I can think of is that root-squash may not be enough (an attacker may still read

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-11 Thread Jim Pick
Hi, I was wondering whether there is anything to worry about if I let another machine nfs mount, read only, root-squash, one directory on my machine. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks George I don't