On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Doug Ledford wrote:
> John Jasen wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >
>
> > In short, your security administrator needs to be dragged out, shot, and
> > left hanging by the front door as a warning to his replacement.
> >
> > Or, at least fired
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:34:06AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> So, now I hooked up my lap-top, installed Windows and here I am.
> Only windows machines are allowed to access the outside world.
That is a shame. I can think of two things that might be of use under
these circumstances:
Might I suggest seeking a new employer whose IT department doesn't seek
the smell of fresh fertilizer compounds about their head and neck.
-d
Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> This is for information only.
>
> Last week a standard RH distribution of Linux was rooted from what looks
> like a Russia
Hi,
I assume that it is ok to sue any company that forwards viruses too...
(not only the author...)
Are Raytheon suing the company were you work, or some
unknown/unnamed company made up by Microsoft?
(you were not specific about this)
/RogerL
On Thursday 29 March 2001 15:34, Richard B. Johnson
John Jasen wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> >snipped<
>more snippage<
> In short, your security administrator needs to be dragged out, shot, and
> left hanging by the front door as a warning to his replacement.
>
> Or, at least fired.
That, or have all the Unix u
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>snipped<
First mistake:
your security administrator relied on the firewall for protection.
It is an _aid_ to security; not the 'be all and end all'. IOW, the hosts
weren't hardened to resist penetration in case the firewall didn't cover
it.
"J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 03.29 Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > The penetration occurred because somebody changed our firewall
> > configuration
> > so that all of the non-DHCP addresses, i.e., all the real IP addresses had
> > complete
> > connectivity to the outside world.
On 03.29 Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> The penetration occurred because somebody changed our firewall
> configuration
> so that all of the non-DHCP addresses, i.e., all the real IP addresses had
> complete
> connectivity to the outside world. This meant that every Linux and Sun
> Workstation
>
This is for information only.
Last week a standard RH distribution of Linux was rooted from what looks
like a Russian invasion. The penetration used the method taught in the CERT
Advisory CA-2000-17.
The intruder(s) then attempted to perform additional penetrations from this
site. One of the
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