RE: Security+

2003-01-11 Thread Gedi
Thanks to all for your information. You have all contributed to my next path in life : ) If anyone is interested (probably not..heh) I'm gonna do the security+ straight away as Clement suggested, then find a job. As soon as I get a job, I'll take Jims advice do the CISA then the cert should

RE: Security+

2003-01-11 Thread Clement Dupuis
I totally agree that SANS has some of the best technical training on the planet. However this person is coming out of college and stricly getting into the Security Market, the only SANS certification I could suggest would be the GSEC. Most of the other cert are very in depth and not for newcomer

Re: Inputs appreciated

2003-01-11 Thread Philip Storry
Hello Rodel, Thursday, January 9, 2003, 3:12:56 PM, you wrote: RC Don't know if this is the right place to post this. Are the out of RC office messages inviting hackers to attack your corporate network? RC Is this a risk to your company if employees start using the Out of RC Office feature? I

Lotus Notes Encryption

2003-01-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everybody, in my company we are using Lotus Notes/Domino R5 as mail tool. Even if the encryption is proprietary and just 64 bits I like this feature very much because it keeps the casual inside attacker from sniffing my mails. But now something interesting happened. Encrypted mails that

Re: ghostly mail ports

2003-01-11 Thread adam
Are you running a virus scanner, such as Norton AntiVirus? This behavior is often caused by AntiVirus software that scans incoming and outgoing email. On Tuesday 07 January 2003 06:45 pm, joe wrote: Hi, im new to security and this is my first post, so be gentle :) I have a fairly good

RE: win2k firewall

2003-01-11 Thread Jason Dixon
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 15:26, Daniel R. Miessler wrote: Why would you tell someone to run blackice witch has bugs in it. If your going to have a firewall, just grab a box that is not being used and put Openbsd on there and make your firewall that way. Because when you pass ports through a

Re: Making a W2K with Internet Connection Sharing secure

2003-01-11 Thread Chris Berry
From: Sarbjit Singh Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need somekind of proxy/NAT/firewalling and URL filtering capabilities on the W2K. They have to be free. We are sourcing for some netscreen stuff but do not know when it will come in. Hard to beat Linux for free stuff, why not set up a box using

RE: Making a W2K with Internet Connection Sharing secure

2003-01-11 Thread shawn
Hi, Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but if you can provide a low end PC you can setup a nice router for free. Check out www.coyotelinux.com for the details. I have been running it for a while now and it provides a very stable secure router, ports closed by default so it does

Re: ghostly mail ports

2003-01-11 Thread John Jasen
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, joe wrote: I have a fairly good understanding of the tcp/ip model and i think i understand what ports are for! but i cant understand that on my box, i have the 2 default mail ports (25 and 110) open. Its a windows 2000 box, service pack three. Im pretty sure im not running

Re: win2k firewall

2003-01-11 Thread alexanderdelarge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I too am going to stick my nose into this debate. First, no single product or configuration is going to make a web server secure. The process of making a web server secure involves many layers. 1. Harden the system. Turn off every thing that isn't