Re: Smurf ,land attacks

2002-11-14 Thread phani
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:10:11PM -0700, Vik Evans wrote: hi, My question is this: how does an attacker accomplish modifying a packet and sending it; such as in a land.c attack - how does he modify the packet to reflect the victim's source and destination IP and then send it onto the wire?

Re: TCP vs UDP

2002-11-14 Thread Gene
Gene LeDuc wrote: Sorry to be blunt, but someone who doesn't understand the difference between UDP and TCP should not even consider setting firewall rules. You need to buy a decent beginners level book on networking that covers tcp/ip fundamentals. -Original Message- From: Roberto

RE: Company Firewall's IP Address

2002-11-14 Thread Vince Hillier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Comments below... Vince Hillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://plutonium.homeunix.com |-Original Message- |From: tony tony [mailto:tonytorri;yahoo.com] |Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:09 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cisaca |Subject: Company

Re: pc anywhere is safe?

2002-11-14 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:44:44PM -0800, Chris Berry wrote: From: SB CH [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use VNC, PC ANYWHERE and Terminal Service to remote control. I would like to which tool is the most safeful? As I know that the VNC is not safe as it transfers the ID/PW into plain text. VNC is

Re: Windows Update - SUS - An thanks everyone

2002-11-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, n0rb wrote: service pack = tons of hotfixes check this ftp: hotfix.microsoft.com Looks pretty broken to me ftp dir 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. ftp: get :10054 and from a different ftp client ftp dir 200 PORT command

Re: TCP vs UDP II

2002-11-14 Thread Rooster
i believe you are asking if it is possible to hijack a TCP session. is this correct? absolutely it is possible, it is just a matter of spoofing the mechanics for maintaining the session, the syn/ack numbers. rant let it be a lesson to you. using a non security feature to provide you with

Re: Yahoo Messenger Stale Sessions

2002-11-14 Thread phani
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:04:50AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, It is surprising that Y! makes a direct connection to the peer. I thot that Y! connects to the server and that handles the communication. And what is the vulnerability that u look at. Since the connection is a p2p

RE: Exploit Tool

2002-11-14 Thread Greg van der Gaast
Retina isn't copied from SSS. I can guarantee you that. Marc Maiffret (eEye's Chief Hacking Officer) aka former hacker 'chameleon' of MoD fame (not to mention gullible enough to think terrorists were sending him money for his stolen DISA files, only to mysteriously find half a dozen special agents

RE: Secure FTP Server Search

2002-11-14 Thread Optrics Engineering - Shaun Sturby, MCSE
WS_FTP server from Ipswitch? SSL for both passwords and data. Ability to _disable_ a lot of features that make the ftp protocol insecure. Ability to force 128 bit SSL on connections. Want to test it. They have a free 30 day eval on their site. www.ipswitch.ca Shaun -Original Message-

Re: syn flooding attack and bandwidth consumation

2002-11-14 Thread phani
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:58:42AM +, SB CH wrote: hi Sorry for the late reply. The bandwidth clogging depends on the content of the packet. If the packet were (say) sent to port 80 , and that too an empty packet, it might be possible that the kernel would drop it and send a RST to the

Re: Company Firewall's IP Address

2002-11-14 Thread Eric Balsa
I think your admin knows more about this than you do and you should listen to him. In order to be connected to the internet, you need an IP address, it's that simple. Any half decent firewall has the ability to block certains types of incoming requests including any hammering people can throw at

Re: Secure FTP Server Search

2002-11-14 Thread Paulo Abrantes
Give a look at Proftp (http://www.proftpd.org) it's a real nice ftp daemon IMHO, secure and flexible. Regards, P. Abrantes On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 01:54:41 -0800 (PST) IDS Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I am looking for a secure FTP server which has less vulnerabilities compared to

Re: Company Firewall's IP Address

2002-11-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, tony tony wrote: I was doing security research on the internet at work yesterdaywhen all of a sudden I got a pop up advertisement that stated that I was broadcasting my IP address to the entire internet. It then showed a screen with my IP address which was the the

RE: TCP vs UDP II

2002-11-14 Thread Schouten, Diederik (Diederik)
Dear list: It's possible that a intruder could take active part of a TCP connection after this was established? In UPD I know this is true because is a connectionless protocol. But I have doubts about TCP. Depending on the location of the attacker this would indeed be possible. He/She's

RE: Secure FTP Server Search

2002-11-14 Thread Will Munkara-Kerr
Hello list, I am looking for a secure FTP server which has less vulnerabilities compared to IIS. Besides functionality, it is important to be tightly secure not to have some vulnerabilities related with FTP commands such as FTP PORT / SITE / NLIST. Any recommedations comments are

MPLS - any Security Holes known?

2002-11-14 Thread DocValde
Hi everybody, MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) seems to be a quite exotic technology since it is only interesting for providers or big companies, so my search for any known weaknesses is still a little bit successless. I only found a test report at mier.com, who are quite

re: any useful links on trojans/RAT's?

2002-11-14 Thread H C
1-Anyone knows the best mailing lists or websites to post some questions about trojans? While I'm not sure what it is you're looking for, I would still suggest that you start by setting up links or bookmarks to several anti-virus vendor's sites. These usually provide pretty good information on

Re: Company Firewall's IP Address

2002-11-14 Thread Igor' Spivak
I was doing security research on the internet at work yesterday It then showed a screen with my IP address which was the the external IP interface of one of our companies firewalls. if this firewall is used to route from your lan--internet then it is logical that its adress could be

Internet Explorer 6 'Autocomplete settings' and username/password retention

2002-11-14 Thread steve baker
How do I get rid of this? For some reason, I cant find a local policy, nor a setting in IEAK 6 that will allow me to turn this off! I dont want users to save their account names much less their passwords when accessing my intranet - or web apps! HELP

Re: Yahoo Messenger Stale Sessions

2002-11-14 Thread BANIER Jeremie
Hello, I believe switching on keep-alive would perhaps sove that one ... knip Windows 2000 TCP keep-alive behavior can be modified by changing the values of the KeepAliveTime and KeepAliveInterval registry entries (HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters). TCP keep-alives can be

Re: Yahoo Messenger Stale Sessions

2002-11-14 Thread Rudolfo Amnesico
hello all, I'm running a small windows LAN with a linux box as a gateway connected to my ISP. This box is using IPTABLES as a firewall and, most important, as a NAT translater (masquerading, putting it simple) so that only one IP is public and all traffic must cross the gateway. I also