Fw: Solaris security

2001-10-29 Thread DSM
Hi securityzer's I was wondering if some of you knows some 'Security' products for Solaris?? In fact we would like to enhance the security architecture of Solaris, with a product, acting as a 'Security Layer' making complex management of security under Solaris. Some kind of Role-Based security

RE: Encryption for FTP/MAil/Web

2001-10-29 Thread Pradeep Kumar
...why not use VPN tunnel to encrypt FTP ? -Original Message- From: Peter 'Luna' Runestig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Encryption for FTP/MAil/Web From: "Myers Chad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 25,

RE: Certificate logon on Unix

2001-10-29 Thread hamlet_av
Ok Rory, more details,: - I'm going to set up an internal CA. - I want use X509 certificate based authentication to log on unix workstation (I have AIX and Solaris). - The certificate shall have to be used to authenticate user to local and remote service. (both Client and server authenticat

snort

2001-10-29 Thread Lucian Vanghele
hi there I try to use snort with "-i" option (-i eth0, -i if0 ...) and I have that answer :invalid interface '0' where is my mistake?

RE: help - can someone explain this to me?

2001-10-29 Thread Estis, Kevin A.
It is true that the addresses *can* be routed; however, they are not routed on or over the Internet. Several large public and private networks use these internal addresses on their private networks (WANS covering not only the US, but also other regions). It is also true that internal addresses are

RE: help - can someone explain this to me?

2001-10-29 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
The RFC 1918 address are not supposed to be routed on the Internet. Within a network, you can do what ever you want with them. So an ISP that adopts 10. addressing among it's users may (doesn't have to) route the 10. block among it's users. That is, customer one could be assigned 10.1.x.y and c

RE: help - can someone explain this to me?

2001-10-29 Thread Robert Clark
The 10.0.*, 127.*, and 192.* are not routable addresses, they are 'reserved'. I don't recall ever seeing ISP's using a 10. address as a public ip. I would wonder if I did. Robert Clark MCSE, MCP+I, MCP, A+ MIS - Texas Cellular > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Blevins [mailto:[EMAIL P

RE: permission for nero

2001-10-29 Thread Jean-François Asselin
You could modify the permissions on the shortcut to read-only except for admins. > -Original Message- > From: scott [gts] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:33 PM > To: security-basics > Subject: RE: permission for nero > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

RE: Linux VPN Client using PPTP?

2001-10-29 Thread Wilbur M. Sims III
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pptpclient http://cag.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian/Projects/PPTP/ > -Original Message- > From: Shane Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Linux VPN Client using PPTP? > > > I was wondering

Re: Tax write off on security products

2001-10-29 Thread James Puckett
I wholeheartedly agree, but only if system administrators count as "qualified security devices.," which would be good for IT salaries! On Friday 26 October 2001 07:45, Chapman, Ralph wrote: > Has anyone else seen this? > > If I read this correctly, we can write off any purchases of security > pr

RE: Packet Sniffing in a Switched LAN

2001-10-29 Thread Pradeep Kumar
My question to you is - what are you going to do with the sniffed traffic.Are you clear on what you want to "read off ". Sniffing tools are used for troubleshooting. What is your purpose ? -Original Message- From: Jacques Chicourel Nunes Vaz - BA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday,

RE: help - can someone explain this to me?

2001-10-29 Thread Andrew Blevins
The Cox@home network here in southern Cal uses 10. addresses for routers and switches in their network. It caused us some problems with our VPN, since we use 10. addresses for our private network. Andrew Blevins Arrowhead Help Desk 1-800-669-1889 x. 8569 -Original Message- From: Robert

RE: Packet Sniffing in a Switched LAN

2001-10-29 Thread Wilbur M. Sims III
Both of the replies I've seen thus far don't take into account the "Switched LAN" portion of your question - so I'll attempt a more in depth answer. Unless you are running on switches that allow you port monitor you will not see all the traffic - from all the ports - all the time, no matter what

RES: Packet Sniffing in a Switched LAN

2001-10-29 Thread Jacques Chicourel Nunes Vaz - BA
Hi Folks, First of all , I´d like to thank you guys who are giving me support to solve this problem. Let me give you some information : 1-About almost a month ago , we had problems with Nimda virus ( we had the Norton Anti-virus but not updated ). So the performance of our network was terrible

RE: security news?????

2001-10-29 Thread Marco Misitano
I'm holding a Security News Page on my website, and I am using the same source (moreover.com) snp.com did use before getting defaced. You will probably find the same kind of info the SNP.com ticker used to tick around the globe. The page is at : http://misitano.com/secnews.html Otherwise i recomme

Re: help - can someone explain this to me?

2001-10-29 Thread TD - Sales International Holland B.V.
127 is for localhost purposes regards On Saturday 27 October 2001 00:05, Laurie E. McQuillan stuffed this into my mailbox: > RFC 1918 restricts these address ranges to internal, privately-assigned IP > subnets: > > 10.0.0.0- 10.255.255.255 > 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.

Wierd attributes

2001-10-29 Thread renante
Hi, I got this attributes to some of my web directory, last week I experienced remote connection denial. I was sure the remote IP address im using is in included in the access list. When I rebooted the machine, the attributes of following folder was change from drwxr__r__ to the one below: c--xrw

Re: Packet Sniffing in a Switched LAN

2001-10-29 Thread Pedro Miller Rabinovitch
Jacques, the software people mentioned here works great (ethereal, ettercap, etc), but if it's a switched environment (and you're not sniffing in the gateway), you'll need 'arpspoof', of the dsniff package (or some similar tool) to get all the packets. I'm not sure if the current versions of t

IDS White Papers/Documents

2001-10-29 Thread mark
Hi all, Any help with the following greatly appreciated! Can anyone point me in the right direction for good white papers/documents on deciding where to locate an IDS on a network? The background to this is that I want to implement an IDS on a network which has an incoming/outgoing Internet c

Re: security news?????

2001-10-29 Thread Nick
At 08:35 AM 10/24/01 -0400, leon wrote: >Does anyone have links, mailing lists, or etc that they would like to >sure? > >It would be much appreciated and to the people who read >securitynewsportal.com I will miss it as much as you do. > >Cheers, > >Leon Hi, You can start here: http://www.secur

Re: Java Telnet ?????????

2001-10-29 Thread 'ken'@FTU
Yes. (It's a Java applet.) Try: http://www.shellinabox.com It's free. It's been tested on Linux, but *may* compile under windows. Also a security note here. If you run this you should do so over port 443, otherwise the traffic (user name and password) is not encrypted. 'ken' Bassam ALHUSSEI

Re: What do I need to block class A addresses on win2k

2001-10-29 Thread Jeff Quinonez
Mailer: SecurityFocus In-Reply-To: <004a01c15dce$a5a64cf0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Or block the http gets at the router level similiar to... class-map match-any http-hacks match protocol http url "*default.ida*" match protocol http url "*x.ida*" match protocol http url "*.ida*" match p

RE: http_head from w2k/win98

2001-10-29 Thread R.H. Cotterell
Whom: sanja madan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What: RE: http_head from w2k/win98 When: 25 October 2001 [2:47 hours] >hi robert >thanks for ur reply ... i have removed the auto-update >from the browser as had been suggested in one of the >responses. But how do i remove the 'auto-update' >feature for wi

Re: Secure Remote over PPoE VPN

2001-10-29 Thread Jeff Quinonez
Mailer: SecurityFocus In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have similiar setup using PacHell PPoE and I can VPN in using SecuRemote no problem. On the home LAN I am behind a Linksys DSL router. My work firewall is FW-1 4.1 sp3 running on a Solaris box and using IP NAT Pool. In addition t

securing Oracle.

2001-10-29 Thread Idan Dolev
Hi, We are looking into the possibility of hosting our oracle in a Oracle hosting company. What are the Security issues I should look into ? Thanks, Idan

Permission for Nero (summery)

2001-10-29 Thread SF_Mailinglist
Hi guys, First of all I wanted to thank you for your help. Never the less I couldn't get Nero working. Nearly a day of testing: try to give permission on directories, files, registry-keys and updating to the latest version. I always get a message saying that I'll need Burning-Rights form the admi

Re: Packet Sniffing in a Switched LAN

2001-10-29 Thread Sebastian Torrealba
How can i sniff packets trought a router or a switch? - Original Message - From: "Zeek Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jacques Chicourel Nunes Vaz - BA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 6:43 PM Subject: RE: Packet Sniffing in a Switched LAN > Try

Re: DoS attacks documentation

2001-10-29 Thread The Crocodile
It was just brought to my attention that the link off of security focus to the DoS Trends pdf is now dead. Here is an accurate link. Thanks for the note N30 http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/DoS_trends.pdf --The Crocodile --www.ghettohackers.net - Original Message - From: "The Crocodile

RE: security news?????

2001-10-29 Thread T.Ferris
www.security-protocols.com is the site you're looking for. Original Message- >From: "Golden_Eternity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "leon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: >Bcc: >Subj: RE: security news? >Type:

RE: http_head from w2k/win98

2001-10-29 Thread sanja madan
thanks u all who replied. Yes i found a scheduled task for mobsync.exe (win/system). This has all the sync settings for offline viewing and windows update. Have disabled the settings there .. thanks again sanjay __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great c

W2k Blues

2001-10-29 Thread phiber2001
We have this W2k (Professional) and want to by-pass the login window. It has all the guest/ default accounts disabled and has only 7 accounts for 7 users. What are the various ways we can penetrate this pc with or without gaining Administrative access? Can any user (other than admin) get the p

Re: Certificate logon on Unix

2001-10-29 Thread Rory
If you are just doing server side-authentication then all you need to do is store the cert on the server and distribute the CA public key to all the clients so they trust the cert that the server presents. The CA public key can be stored in the users-directory and the worst thing that will happen

Re: Packet Sniffing in a Switched LAN

2001-10-29 Thread Chris Wilkes
You'll need to get all the traffic sent to the switch mirrored on another port. Look at your switch's documentation, if it is a managed one it may support this. If you can't see the traffic won't do much good sniffing it. If it isn't or doesn't provide port mirroring then you could take the con

Re: DoS attacks documentation

2001-10-29 Thread limon
there's lots of info out there on this...check out SANS...also, if your running cisco gear, CCO has info on the PIX and IOS platforms...the SAFE architecture to be specific. a good option is a google search. -tuanis On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, May, Jason S wrote: > Would anyone know where I could fin

Re: security news?????

2001-10-29 Thread Gonçalo Gomes
Hello, My favorite one is: http://www.net-security.org also: http://www.theregister.co.uk http://www.securityprotocols.com -Gonçalo. On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, leon wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does anyone have any favorite sites regarding security news? I use to > love securitynewsportal.com but

Re: Packet Sniffing in a Switched LAN

2001-10-29 Thread The Crocodile
UGH.. OK.. Last time we should go over sniffing a switched lan on this list. People.. read the archive! ethereal is just a sniffer. Any sniffer will sniff the wire. Not all sniffers will do the appropriate measures to allow you to see ALL packets going through your switch. Safest method: Ge

RE: help - can someone explain this to me?

2001-10-29 Thread Michael Kjorling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, I believe that 127/8 is the loopback network (I know that 127.0.0.1 is the usual loopback address, and have seen a lot of "dummy" IPs under 127/8). I've never heard about 198/8 being either system, link or site local, though. Michael Kjörling

Re: security news?????

2001-10-29 Thread J. Reilink
leon wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Does anyone have any favorite sites regarding security news? I use to > love securitynewsportal.com but it was defaced last night (10/24) and > the people who run the site now say it will be shut down. HNN is dead > and @stake doesn't seem to care as they updat

Re: Stealth Scan Question

2001-10-29 Thread Gonçalo Gomes
Hello, Phrack 49 (not sure if it's 49 issue) contains an article named "Port Scanning without the SYN flag" http://www.phrack.org -Gonçalo. On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, roland kwitt wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > i'd like to know whether anybody of you guys has ever > written a port scanner using the

Re: Packet Sniffing in a Switched LAN

2001-10-29 Thread John S. Lyons
Not so simple if you're on a switched network. If machines A, B, and C are on a switch, C will not see unicast packets going from A to B. Some switches allow you to replicate all traffic onto a single port which you can plug the sniffer box into. Or, you can spoof the MAC address of the machine

Re: security news?????

2001-10-29 Thread Sean
www.cotse.com Even Athiests need to go to Church! Everything you could ever need - Original Message - From: "leon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: October 24, 2001 8:35 AM Subject: security news? | Hi everyone, | | Does anyone have any favorite sites regarding sec

Re: help - can someone explain this to me?

2001-10-29 Thread limon
tcpdumps of the packets might help you in the analysis...also, running an IDS like snort could give you insight into the *attacks*. the packets are being denied by ipfw/ipchains, right? -tuanis On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Steven M Bloomfield wrote: > Hi, > I'm webmaster of a large-ish website and

Re: Packet Sniffing in a Switched LAN

2001-10-29 Thread None
I agree with Matt on ettercap, for sniffing switched network ettercap is what you want.the tool was design to intercept switched traffic...Dsniff from Dug Song is a great "tool collection" to start with when it comes to sniffing. Original Message - From: "Matt Hemingway" <[EMAIL PROTE

msproxy ports

2001-10-29 Thread Vladimir Shtern
Hi all, I wonder if somebody can point me to a resource describing the minimum ports I can open on MS Proxy in order to keep it functional and secure. Any feedback will be deeply appreciated. Thank you, Vladimir Shtern System Administrator Avica Technology (310)450-9090 ext.164

RE: Packet Sniffing in a Switched LAN

2001-10-29 Thread Robert D. Hughes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In a switched LAN, you can use any tool you'd like. A good one is tcpdump, which is available for pretty much any platform. GUI front ends are also available, and may make things a bit easier in the beginning, as 200 nodes, especially if they're wind

RE: help - can someone explain this to me?

2001-10-29 Thread Cliff Riggs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Those are spoofed addresses. They could be coming from anyplace. The idea that the numbers are 'not-routable' is common, but not quite accurate. The RFC 1918 packets are as routable as any other packet, otherwise how would a subnetted LAN operate? T

Re: help - can someone explain this to me?

2001-10-29 Thread Lutz Badenheuer
Please have another look at your documentation. The so-called "unregistered" IP-addresses are 10.0.0.0/8, 172.0.0.0/16 (i think, i don't use these ones) and 192.168.0.0/16. In fact, to me it doesn't seem that one of the denied connects listed below could have done any harm to your system. In

Re: Linux VPN Client using PPTP?

2001-10-29 Thread dewt
On Thursday 25 October 2001 12:51 pm, Shane Ryan wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips about using a linux > workstation to VPN into work using pptp. I found some articles at > http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resources/cryptography-1.html but most seem > to discuss SSH as the s

RE: permission for nero

2001-10-29 Thread Robert Clark
You wouldn't need to add the account to the Administrators group, you would probably only need to add it to the Backup Users group or something similar. Or you could simply create a NERO group, add the user and set permissions from there. Most accounts have the potential for exploitation, but you

Tax write off on security products

2001-10-29 Thread Chapman, Ralph
Has anyone else seen this? If I read this correctly, we can write off any purchases of security products now. 107TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION, H. R. 2970 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow businesses to expense qualified security devices. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEPTEMBER

RE: help - can someone explain this to me?

2001-10-29 Thread Andrew Blevins
That these reserved addresses can't be routed I don't think is entirely true (but I'm not a network spec. either! :-) . I have seen many ISP's use 10. addresses for their own routers, and for all intent's and purposes "The Internet" includes some ISP networks (cable, DSL). It is very possible that