RE: Ethernet Tap

2001-11-28 Thread Joe-Clifton
Shomiti also makes an fairly inexpensive tap as well. Joe H. Clifton, II Security Team Lead Office Depot 2200 Old Germantown Rd Delray Beach, FL 33445 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 561-438-7906 Fax: 561-438-7633 2-way pgr: 877-542-0129 -Original Message- From: Justin Funke

Re: Xmas and null scans

2001-11-28 Thread Michael Zeilbeck
Hi Craig, Straight from the nmap man page: The FIN scan uses a bare (surprise) FIN packet as the probe, while the Xmas tree scan turns on the FIN, URG, and PUSH flags. The Null scan turns off all flags. Hope this helps, -Mike >>> Craig Van Tassle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/24/01 11:32PM >>> Well

Re: Firewall Costs

2001-11-28 Thread Mitch Impey
Hi everyone. You might also consider Gnat Box or Sonic Wall as well. Both the software only solutions and the appliances are quite fully featured. regards, mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Multiple port mirroring?

2001-11-28 Thread Åsmund Myklevoll
That's not entirely true. The ports are called span ports or monitor ports depending on the switch brand. And depending on the capabilities of the switch you can monitor either one VLAN, several VLAN's or the entire switch. On some low-end switches you might only be able to monitor one VLAN th

Re: Xmas and null scans

2001-11-28 Thread Paul Cardon
Craig Van Tassle wrote: > > Well i know what a port scan is and how it works.. i was asking about the Xmas and >NULL type scans. What flags do they set? > I was just asking bout these specific types of scans not port scanning in general. Xmas - all TCP flags NULL - no TCP flags -paul

Re: Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 Question

2001-11-28 Thread Robert Nottoli
Yes, see Article ID: Q297443 @ support.microsoft.com. I have just been through this. cheers, rob - Original Message - From: "Martin Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:05 AM Subject: Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 Question > > I

Re: Safeweb.com no more free !!!!!!!!!!

2001-11-28 Thread Wyatt . Fradenburg
Hello All, I am willing to put up a new safeweb site. But I need to know how. Any help would be appreciated. Wyatt "Bassam ALHUSSEIN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/25/2001 10:56:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Wyatt Fradenburg/SMC) Subject: Safeweb.com no mo

Re: SSH server for windows

2001-11-28 Thread Prentis Brooks
cygnus has a good port of openssh included with the CYGWIN environment. www.cygwin.com On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Andrew Chong wrote: > Hi, > Anyone have successfully used and implemented SSH server for > WindowsNT4/Win2K? I've installed one SSH server product by www.ssh.com but > couldn't get it to

Re: ADSL Security questions

2001-11-28 Thread dewt
On Saturday 24 November 2001 07:37 am, Gavin wrote: > To all High Speed Connection Users, > > I need your help, I'm getting ready to step up from a PPP connection to > ADSL and with your assistance, I would like to know some of the security > steps to take when using ADSL. My gateway/firewall is

Any recent ssh attacks?

2001-11-28 Thread Wooi Koay
I got lots of scans on port 22 recently, is there any known ssh security holes being discussed recently? Thanks. Wooi.

RE: SSH server for windows

2001-11-28 Thread Yury German
I have used it SSh for NT/2k and it does a descent job. Try a different client (make sure it is ssh2 compatible). I did encounter a problem while using it for port forwarding a vnc connection. Later, Yury German -Original Message- From: Andrew Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mond

Snort/Hogwash help

2001-11-28 Thread Thomas Madhavan
Hi guys, I'm a pretty new user to Linux, and I want to set up some sort of protection for my box. I have snort installed and I'm looking for rulesets - the problem I have is this: When I run snort, it runs in a terminal. How exactly do I set snort to just run in the background, collecting unusua

Re: NetMeeting and Instant Messenger

2001-11-28 Thread Meritt James
Article: How instant messaging can jeopardise network security "The use of instant messaging within a company can slow network performance and expose systems to hackers and viruses. Jonathan Bennett explains how good policies and tools can reduce the risks " Full article at http://www.zdnet.co.u

Re: Listening processes.

2001-11-28 Thread Scott H
'netstat -tap' works for linux, Im assuming its the same on unix? On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:27, Raghu Chinthoju wrote: > Hi Group, > > Can we find out what processes are listening on what TCP/IP ports on a UNIX > host? > I there a straight forward command to find that out? > > Regards, > Raghu. > >

Re: Stupid MSDE question

2001-11-28 Thread Jan P Tietze
Francois Pepin wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anyone who could tell me if MSDE can be accessed by TCP/IP like > MS-SQL (in the view of the recent worm)? Yes, it can. Basically, MSDE is a stripped-down version of MS SQL server, and offers true client-server capabilities. > If so, is there any way to

RE: SNMP security

2001-11-28 Thread Mark Medici
Why in the world would you let SMTP through your firewall regardless? Unless it's the interior border of your DMZ allowing SNMP from specific hosts on the fully-protected internal networks to specific hosts inside the DMZ and back again. I would never allow SNMP in from or out to the Internet. J

Loading the ZoneAlarm firewall early

2001-11-28 Thread Poole, Clifton
Hello, I would like to have my personal firewall loaded as soon as possible when my 2K box boots up. I have searched the Zone Labs for a command line options but could not find anything. What is available in 2K? Do I use the win.ini file to load it? This seems simple to do, but I can not fig

RE: Nimda Problems

2001-11-28 Thread Kinsey, Robert
Hello John, First of all I would say that you are not experiencing any kind of _known_ Nimda affect. I am glad to see you report you rebuilt the machine and updated the patches with the system off-line - this is a far better approach since several different worms can invade a system (as you foun

Re: ipchains

2001-11-28 Thread aman raheja
Making an entry in the /etc/hosts resolved the reverse DNS look up problem. Thanks all for assistance. Aman >From: "aman raheja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: ipchains >Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:35:22 -0600 > >hi all >i have configured ipchains on my linux 7.1 box. >the 3

RE: Unix Environments and Malicious Code

2001-11-28 Thread Kinsey, Robert
Hello Rich, In the past (I thought currently) McAfee offered an A/V software for the *nix (Solaris for sure) environment - maybe others. Have you checked there? Regards, Robert

Trying sec on your own little box !

2001-11-28 Thread marcus
Hello ! My first msg to this list ! I wanto improve the security of my linux slackware 7.0 box! I have an exploit that should work for my ftp service, but when I run it on localhost or 127.0.0.1 nothing happens. If I run it on a random IP wich probably doesn't have the same service or even linux

Re: ipchains

2001-11-28 Thread aman
True. The speed is better when I made the entry in the /etc/hosts file. The connection is quick when I remove firewall, though we should expect DNS lookup then too. Suggestions? Aman - Original Message - From: "Slava Bouttchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > i have seen sshd working slow on opp

firewall / DNS question

2001-11-28 Thread novitiate
I want to limit DNS over TCP 53 to the servers that do zone transfers with me. Will this in any way affect resolvers that get responses bigger than a UDP packet will allow ? The DNS rfc states that the TC bit is set in the DNS header, but it does not specify what if any action is taken by the r

Re: Listening processes.

2001-11-28 Thread Paul Cardon
Raghu Chinthoju wrote: > > Hi Group, > > Can we find out what processes are listening on what TCP/IP ports on a UNIX > host? > I there a straight forward command to find that out? Yes. "lsof -i". Some Linux distributions include it. If your system doesn't have it you can get the source from:

Fw: svchost.exe

2001-11-28 Thread Richard
>> To see what process this is hosting, do a "tlist" on the process id > >XP does not have tlist. Yes it does. MS is constantly renaming utilities, tlist in xp is tasklist and it's installed by default, which is a nice change. This is an old link to Default Processes in Windows 2000 that you m

RE: WIN2K Ports 32000 & 32001 Open ?

2001-11-28 Thread Philip Freed
I've used Tiny Personal Firewall for some time. But one of our sys admins has told me that it's not too stable on Win2K systems (our new standard), and he's looking for an alternative. Has anyone else experienced problems running TPF under W2K? At 06:51 PM 11/26/01 -0300, Richard Cotterell wr

Re: sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf

2001-11-28 Thread Kutulu
From: "M. Wolffensperger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 3:19 PM Subject: sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf > I have a problem with rebuilding the sendmail.mc file to the > sendmail.cf file I do the following [root@mail m.wolffensperger]# m4 > /etc/mail/

Re: ADSL Security questions

2001-11-28 Thread gminick
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 10:37:56PM +0900, you (Gavin) wrote: > My goal is to have all my computers (4) talking to > each other securely, I have been advised not to use telnet so I'm trying to > learn how to connect to my other systems via SSH. take a look at search engine on www.linuxsecurity.co

RE: Firewall Costs

2001-11-28 Thread Jonathan Goetsch
Very standard pricing -Original Message- From: dewt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 6:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Security-basics Subject:Re: Firewall Costs On Friday 23 November 2001 08:50 am, Thomas Ullrich wrote: > Hello everybody, > our IT

Re: Listning processes.

2001-11-28 Thread Kelly Kleinfelder
For those processes that run as services, you can do a netstat -a, and it will show the name of the service. Then you can do a netstat -an to get the corresponding port numbers. Also, check out RFC 1340 to see a list of the well known port numbers: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1340.html Kelly

Re: ipchains

2001-11-28 Thread aman raheja
If I drop the firewall, the connection is instant, no time lag. Suggestions? Aman >From: "TD - Sales International Holland B.V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "aman raheja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: ipchains >Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:48:45 +0100 > >On Saturday 24 November 2001 19:35, you wrot

Re: Safeweb.com no more free !!!!!!!!!!

2001-11-28 Thread Ben Lambrey
try http://www.privasec.com - Original Message - From: "Bassam ALHUSSEIN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 5:56 PM Subject: Safeweb.com no more free !! > Hello ... > I've got a question: > Any body knows a free anonymizing service like

RE: Firewall Costs

2001-11-28 Thread Glenn Pitcher
I would have to second that... the number of hours they've quoted is too high for a static site. Anybody that comes in and trys to tell me a PIX will take 11 days a year to maintain, without qualifing it, will find themselves out of the running. --- Glenn Pitcher Sr. System Admin (in need of

Re: Sendmail.mc > Sendmail.cf

2001-11-28 Thread Rafia Tapia
first find out where the sendmail-cf directory is on your machine. for instance I am running Redhat Linux and on my machine it is /usr/share/sendmail-cf . If you downloaded and built your sendmail files then instead of sendmail-cf directory you will have sendmail-x.xx.x directory where the x indic

RE: Web authentication with smart cards

2001-11-28 Thread Kleber S Oliveira
Try to use Smart Cards from RSA. The part number is SD-600(keyfob) ou SD-200 (card). You will need to use the software called Ace server from a determined number of users. regards Kleber Oliveira Ricardo Aguilera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >I am looking for a web authenticatio

Re: Squirrel Mail - just how secure it is?

2001-11-28 Thread ziggy
ummh well it is not a bad webmail program but security is only as good as the administrator who implements it! i think ...i got a nice working version of squirrelmail hasnt given me any problems so far and if you want a webmail program you have to use some sort of IMAP regardless of how insecure

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Remote Admin of DMZ

2001-11-28 Thread gsodusta
Hi, Actually I was using fport, I traced the application listening on 1088, and it was from sshd.exe. I checked the server now, and when I started it its not listening to port 1088 anymore but now port 1028, this is aside from the port 22. regards, Grefenp [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/27/2001

Re: Squirrel Mail - just how secure it is?

2001-11-28 Thread Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:20:28PM +0100, Branko IvanoviU wrote: > Hello group, > > I would like to ask if anyone has some expirience working with or security > auditing WebMail program, written in PHP, called SquirrelMail. As I can see > in version 1.06 and 1.2.0rc2 it is using IMAP, which I c