RE: Firewall on server itself

2003-06-26 Thread Gene LeDuc
Since you are calling this a secure web server, I'd use iptables to block incoming traffice to all ports that you don't explicitly allow, fewer surprises that way. Being paranoid isn't all bad. Regards, Gene -Original Message- From: Anish Basu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, Jun

RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool?

2003-06-23 Thread Gene LeDuc
] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:20 PM To: 'Gene LeDuc' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? Since this is what I do for a living, security incident response handling and computer forensic investigations, I am

RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool?

2003-06-21 Thread Gene LeDuc
Since all you did was copy/paste from the web site, I think it's fair to ask what your experience with this product has been. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 4:30 PM To: 'Wilcox, Stephen'; 'Ansgar Wiechers'; [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool?

2003-06-21 Thread Gene LeDuc
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool? :-Original Message- :From: Gene LeDuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:20 PM :To: 'Wilcox, Stephen' :Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Subject: RE

RE: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard -disk search tool?

2003-06-18 Thread Gene LeDuc
If all you want to do is recover the info, you can attach the hard drive to a linux box and mount the NTFS partition. From that point you can browse the NTFS file system and copy any files you want. Depending on the flavor and version of linux, you may have to load an NTFS driver; I believe sourc

RE: Router Packet Filtering and Firewalls

2003-01-31 Thread Gene LeDuc
Hi Geoff, It's your ISP not wanting the extra pain of a non-standard installation. Having the router block incoming packets from your address block and those addressed to your broadcast address means your firewall can spend its CPU time dealing with trickier rules. If your company doesn't do busi

RE: IP Session Hijacking And Spoofing

2002-11-25 Thread Gene LeDuc
Let's take 2 machines, A and T. A is the attacker and T is the target. We can use B as the bogus (spoofed) source address. A sends a SYN packet to T with B's address as the source to open a TCP connection. Any sequence number will work in this packet. T receives the bogus packet, increments A'

RE: TCP vs UDP

2002-11-12 Thread Gene LeDuc
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 Ramsis [mailto:robertoram

RE: Ftp Login

2002-11-04 Thread Gene LeDuc
Yes, standard ftp is all clear text. -Original Message- From: Pablo Gietz [mailto:pablo.gietz@;nuevobersa.com.ar] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ftp Login Hi list DO you know if FTP (standard) login process is maked in clear text? thanks Pablo

RE: Sendmail virus scanner

2002-10-28 Thread Gene LeDuc
I've had great success using mailscanner (www.mailscanner.info) with sophos on my RH server. Another pretty popular a/v product to use with mailscanner is f-prot; it's significantly less expensive than most of the other commercial a/v products for use on a mail server. Mailscanner is also pretty