RE: Hack?

2003-07-03 Thread Allan Schon
Check to make sure that the servers running on those ports aren't vulnerable. Also, is there a possibility that someone inside your firewall is acting malicious? Is your firewall vulnerable? RH7.2 is getting kinda old, have you kept your patches up to date? Just because you have a firewall

RE: 40-bit VS 128-bit Encryption

2003-06-21 Thread Allan Schon
Well, it depends which algorithm is used for the encryption. The 'bit' value isn't as important as you might think, compared to the specific algorithm used. If you're refering to RSA public key encryption, most online businesses use a 1024 bit key; 128 bit keys not very secure, given the speed

Odd log messages

2003-03-03 Thread Allan Schon
hostname - - [26/Feb/2003:23:00:13 -0500] "CONNECT 207.46.181.13:25 HTTP/1.1" 405 321 Thanks -- Allan Schon

RE: Download Managers

2003-02-27 Thread Allan Schon
Unless something has gone horribly amiss, Gnucleus (an open-source gnutella client) is spyware/adware free. They only have a windows client, though. Go to http://www.gnutella.com/connect/ for a list of gnutella clients, then google it, like 'gnucleus spyware' and see what comes up. -Origin