RE: Syskey on Win2k

2003-02-07 Thread Hopkins, Joshua
If you have the rights to the machine all you need to do is use the first version of pwdump on the machine that you are looking for and dump the sam into a txt file and then just import the dumped sam into LC4 Joshua R. Hopkins Information Security Analyst ARUP Laboratories Salt Lake City, UT

VLAN Security

2003-02-07 Thread Naman Latif
Hi, We have different Cisco Catalyst switches configured for VLANS. With the current configuration 1. All trunks have a native VLAN, which is not used by any User. 2. Management VLAN is other than VLAN 1. We have different VLANs in place, however these are only used for different Servers ,And

RE: Can anybody explain this Klez Variant?

2003-02-07 Thread Anders Reed Mohn
Klez has several variants. This is probably just one of them. 1) The my_name email address is an old excite account which hasn't been used in over 2 years and has been disabled. But someone, somewhere, might still have it in their address books. The myfriend address was not in my address

RE: adware showing up

2003-02-07 Thread Louie M.
Anyone heard of this or have any idea how to get rid of it? AdAware didn't find the malware. Another one you can try is Spybot: Search and Destroy at http://security.kolla.de/ Its a spyware detector for advanced users meaning it leans towards the paranoid and will appear to give you lots

RE: Syskey on Win2k

2003-02-07 Thread Lachlan McGill
If you create an emergency repair disk, then windows will copy the sam file to c:\winnt\repair directory at which point you can then do what you like with the sam file while the system is running. -Original Message- From: James Kelly To: 'Pez Mohr'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Security-Basics'

Spam from Symantec

2003-02-07 Thread alaskan
Is anyone on this e-mail continually getting spam e-mails about Norton System Works 2003? I would think that this would be a scam to try and get credit card numbers etc... If it was legitimate, I think I will switch to linux sooner than planned.

Re: Actual Security Cases

2003-02-07 Thread Govind
Educate your manger on the importance of Security.Tell him ,Security should always have Top - down approach (Meaning,security should start from Management to Technical).I come across lot of security related incidents ,when I go for auditing. cheers At 08:23 PM 1/29/2003 +0100, [EMAIL

nmap os detection!

2003-02-07 Thread Prathap R
hello all, i just used nmap to detect the os on the network. out of curiosity,i want to know if there is a way of making the OS undetectable. it will be of great help if anyone could point out how do it?. i am using both windows and linux. thanks in advance. regards, Prathap

RE: Unwanted programs on Win2K

2003-02-07 Thread Tim Donahue
snip I, personally, have a tendency to SSH home during class to read up on email and such whenever it gets a little boring. There's also times when I 'su' while logged in remotely from school. I know I don't want anyone getting my root passwords. You could use sudo for most things that

Port 111 TCP - SUNRPC

2003-02-07 Thread Rod Green
Hello. I'm using nmap to scan a Linux machine I have. It's a slackware 8.1 box. When I do a normal scan I see port 111/tcp listed as being open which nmap sees as possibly being the sunrpc service. I have looked in inetd.conf and don't see anything related to that. How can I find out what service

Annoying virus being mailed to me

2003-02-07 Thread Chris Carter
Hi guys, For the last two months or so I have been receiving emails with the I-Worm/Sobig virus attached about twice a day. My anti-virus sw protects me well so I am not infected in any way (nor has anybody else here). Initially, I used to ignore the messages and delete them; after a couple of

RE: Spam from Symantec

2003-02-07 Thread Mike Heitz
That's almost as bad as the amount of SPAM I receive advertising the Chubb Institute and DeVry University. Let's see... you claim to teach IT yet you offend every IT person on the planet by spamming them??? Ingenious approach! mike heitz ** sr it manager ** UPSHOT 312-943-0900 x5190

RES: Port 111 TCP - SUNRPC

2003-02-07 Thread William Rocha Lima
Execute command: iptables -A INPUT -s 0/0 --dport 111 -j DROP -Mensagem original- De: Rod Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviada em: sexta-feira, 7 de fevereiro de 2003 11:40 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: Port 111 TCP - SUNRPC Hello. I'm using nmap to scan a Linux machine I have.

RE: Port 111 TCP - SUNRPC

2003-02-07 Thread Ethan
netstat -lp will show what processes are listening on your machine. you have to be root to use the -p option however. -Ethan -Original Message- From: Rod Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 5:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Port 111 TCP - SUNRPC

RE: VLAN Security

2003-02-07 Thread Ken Terry
When all users are on the same VLAN, they are on the same network and therefore can see each other. If you want to keep groups separate, for example Engineering from Finance, it makes prefect sense to create a VLAN for each and assign ports (or users) to that VLAN. From a security point of view,

Re: nmap os detection!

2003-02-07 Thread Brad Arlt
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:13:43PM +0530, Prathap R wrote: i just used nmap to detect the os on the network. out of curiosity,i want to know if there is a way of making the OS undetectable. it will be of great help if anyone could point out how do it?. i am using both windows and linux.

RE: VLAN Security

2003-02-07 Thread Ethan
Since you have a seperate management vlan, and it sounds like there is nothing else in the vlan besides user ports, I haven't heard of any security advantages to not using the default Vlan. However for organizational and easier administration it would make sense to use a different vlan for user

RE: Port 111 TCP - SUNRPC

2003-02-07 Thread Rob Stevens
Rod, I would check /etc/services for tcp/111 (ie. # cat /etc/services | grep 111) I Believe with Slackware though SunRPC is being run from within the rc.d startup scripts located in /etc/rc.d/. you will have to comment out the RPC startup entry within the rc scripts. -Original Message-

Re: Port 111 TCP - SUNRPC

2003-02-07 Thread dave
install lsof and then lsof -i | grep sunrpc or lsof -i | grep 111 check out: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/security-guide/s1-server-ports.html for more info. dave On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 08:40, Rod Green wrote: Hello. I'm using nmap to scan a Linux machine I

RE: Spam from Symantec

2003-02-07 Thread John Tolmachoff
See those all the time getting caught by our spam software. John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA IT Manager, Network Engineer RelianceSoft, Inc. Fullerton, CA 92835 www.reliancesoft.com Is anyone on this e-mail continually getting spam e-mails about Norton System Works 2003? I would think that this

RE: nmap os detection!

2003-02-07 Thread Ethan
There was just a thread about this on the honeypot mailling list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Not only can you make the OS undetectable, you can also fake other OS's in the nmap scan. Links from honeypot threads: http://ippersonality.sourceforge.net/ http://www.raisdorf.net/projects/pfprintd/ you also

Re: Annoying virus being mailed to me

2003-02-07 Thread Robert Hak
Ah yes.. bigboss.. I get him about 2 - 3 times a day. Dunno what or why it is. Its not just you though. Rob On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Chris Carter wrote: Hi guys, For the last two months or so I have been receiving emails with the I-Worm/Sobig virus attached about twice a day. My anti-virus sw

RE: Annoying virus being mailed to me

2003-02-07 Thread Phillips, Mike
Our IT department has things set up to scan for viruses and block all virusy email inbound, so I haven't seen this particular problem. At home, where I am the IT department, I've set up my email program to not download mail from certain addresses that I find either offensive or virusy. It sits on

RES: RES: Port 111 TCP - SUNRPC

2003-02-07 Thread William Rocha Lima
execute of ntsysv e disabled RPC or vi /etc/inetd.conf e disabled SUNRPC -Mensagem original- De: Rod Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviada em: sexta-feira, 7 de fevereiro de 2003 16:50 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: Re: RES: Port 111 TCP - SUNRPC I found that the service was

RE: VLAN Security

2003-02-07 Thread marco misitano
This presentation has a lot of L2 security considerations, including VLAN1. http://www.cisco.com/networkers/nw02/post/presentations/docs/SEC-202.pdf Hope it helps. ~marco -Original Message- From: Naman Latif [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 06 February, 2003 08:00 PM To:

RE: Port 111 TCP - SUNRPC

2003-02-07 Thread Jose Luis Onis
Don't forget to specify which protocol (ie. -p tcp or -p udp) otherwise it won't work. --- Jose Luis Onis Primary Brokers -Mensaje original- De: William Rocha Lima [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: viernes, 07 de febrero de 2003 15:49 Para: Rod Green; [EMAIL

permission

2003-02-07 Thread Kenzo
OK, I need some input from you guys on this. Our webmaster seems to think that giving the guest internet user read access to the C drive is OK as long as you don't set IIS to list content and other stuff that I don't understand, since I don't know anything about running a website. I told him that

Re: Annoying virus being mailed to me

2003-02-07 Thread Su Wadlow
--On Friday, February 07, 2003 10:54 AM +0100 Chris Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the last two months or so I have been receiving emails with the I-Worm/Sobig virus attached about twice a day. My anti-virus sw protects me well so I am not infected in any way (nor has anybody else here).

Re: Annoying virus being mailed to me

2003-02-07 Thread Brad Arlt
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:54:13AM +0100, Chris Carter wrote: Hi guys, For the last two months or so I have been receiving emails with the I-Worm/Sobig virus attached about twice a day. My anti-virus sw protects me well so I am not infected in any way (nor has anybody else here). Initially,

Re: nmap os detection!

2003-02-07 Thread flur
There have been numerous kernel patches that prevent stealth, fin and rst scans for Linux and BSD. I'm not sure as to updates, but you can the old sources for linux kernel 2.4.16 and BSD 4.4 in the downloads section of www.badc0ded.com. Applying this code to the latest kernel builds should not

RE: VLAN Security

2003-02-07 Thread Clinton McGuire
Cisco recently held a Sec Boot camp seminar in my area, and they covered Layer 2 sec issues. One of their topics was VLAN hopping... They were nice enough to put all their slides on the Web in PDF. The first 4 presentations listed are good reads, the 5th if I remember correctly was pretty well

Re: Spam from Symantec

2003-02-07 Thread A.G. Williams
As much as it pains me to admit to having worked for them for FOUR YEARS, yes, their marketing people spam the daylights out of the consumers. NAV is the Holy Grail to Big Yella. How else are they going to send all those account managers and executives to Tahiti? --- Brad Arlt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Spam from Symantec

2003-02-07 Thread Bruce.Orcutt
The most ironic I find these days are the ones that start out Get rid of SPAM now. As for the Systemworks emails, there was a write-up a few weeks ago, forget by who (could of been CNET), in which this was addressed. Apparently, a large number of surplus copies of Systemworks were purchased

Re: VLAN Security

2003-02-07 Thread Rich MacVarish
Greetings, I don't know of any advantages (if someone does please share) of moving all users to a non-default VLAN, but there may be an advantage to putting different user groups onto different VLANs. Example, putting Development and HR onto different VLANs essentially puts them on seperate

Re: Annoying virus being mailed to me

2003-02-07 Thread Bob
Hey Chris and all, We have seen some of this on our network as well. It (I-Worm/Sobig) appears to be just another worm that spreads via email on Windows boxes. Like so many of the others, once it infects a users machine, it collects their email addresses (from WAB, HTML, DBX, EML, and so

Re: Actual Security Cases

2003-02-07 Thread Jeffrey C. Keyser
There are stories in the media of identity theft, mass credit card fraud and various forms of industrial espionage on least a monthly basis. The bigger issue is that security MUST come from top down. I'm not sure of the of laws in your corner of the globe, but you may be able to convince him

Re: Port 111 TCP - SUNRPC

2003-02-07 Thread Lambott
It's called the Portmapper service - run setup from the Linux command prompt, which should give you the option to configure services, there you can disable Portmapper and save settings. Regards, T.Lambo In an email dated Fri, 7 Feb 2003 1:40:07 pm GMT, Rod Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: Can anybody explain this Klez Variant?

2003-02-07 Thread it_hjw
Spam is so frustrating. gr. I always report it--It doesn't stop it from coming, but if I can be an annoyance to them (like they are to me) then I'll keep doing it. :) My ISP just sent me this to report complaints regarding other domains. It may help (or may not).

Re: Spam from Symantec

2003-02-07 Thread R . K . Davis
It is not from Symantec. If you visit their site you'll see they are as upset about it as you are. http://www.symantec.com/spamwatch/ Bob On 07 Feb 2003 18:38 EST you wrote: Is anyone on this e-mail continually getting spam e-mails about Norton System Works 2003? I would think that this

RE: Annoying virus being mailed to me

2003-02-07 Thread Mike Heitz
Chris, That's another one that will come to you from just about anywhere. If someone is infected and has your email address anywhere on their system, you'll get targeted. Here's the write up from Symantec... of interest is the section describing where the worm harvest email addresses from. The

Re: Annoying virus being mailed to me

2003-02-07 Thread Don Voss
On 7 Feb 2003 at 10:54, Chris Carter wrote: Hi guys, For the last two months or so I have been receiving emails with the I-Worm/Sobig virus attached about twice a day. My anti-virus sw protects me well so I am not infected in any way (nor has anybody else here). Initially, I used to ignore