RE: Interesting One

2002-11-01 Thread Holmes, Ben
Magnetic force microscopy and other such things could (and do) indeed read past data from a hard drive that has been wiped many times (I have heard many conflicting and often wild claims about the exact number). A single pass can defeat anything the drive circuitry can grab from the disk and if y

RE: Unclassified Disk "Sanitizers"

2002-03-09 Thread Holmes, Ben
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Like I have posted before to other lists.. here is what I think about all of this "Disk Sanitizers" 1. Drives remap bad sectors, most disk sanitizers do not wipe previously allocated bad sectors (that is, sectors in the Grown Defect List of an ID

RE: The Best Network Scanner?

2002-03-01 Thread Holmes, Ben
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I like Nessus, it is GPL and so you know exactly what you are getting and it is maintained! Not only that, Nessus has Excellent reporting (Including HTML with nice looking PIE graphs)... I like to run a Nessus server using Linux (nessusd) and a N

RE: I've been hurt by an e-mail virus ! What virus is it ?

2002-01-25 Thread Holmes, Ben
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It looks a lot like the BadTrans Worm I would suggest it is Badtrans.A but it could be Badtrans.B (less likely because the files you mention are send in the original and, although the .B version also sends them, it is less likely) If the worm repl

RE: Which Proxy Server....

2001-12-18 Thread Holmes, Ben
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 HTTP, FTP, Telnet, SSL, NNTP and E-Mail all use TCP and can be easily tunnelled or used through a proxy system, Messaging and Streaming video may use UDP and that makes it VERY hard. Here are some notes that may help.. 1. HTTP,FTP MANY proxy ser