Re: Survey: Chat and IM

2002-11-26 Thread Jason Yates
very port at the firewall, people can still talk through aim through web proxies. This is when my previous employer eventually gave up on the policy. Good luck you'll need it. =) Jason Yates On Thursday 21 November 2002 16:03, tony toni wrote: > Hi, > > We currently are allowi

RE: The Basics

2002-07-17 Thread Jason Yates
I can't recommend http://project.honeynet.org and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201746131/qid=1026920681/sr=8-1/ref= sr_8_1/103-5169117-1779044 the book enough. -Jason Yates > -Original Message- > From: Jim Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July

RE: NT/2000 vs Unix based Web Servers

2002-07-15 Thread Jason Yates
pretty balanced view of what the two have as > far as pros and cons. > > As an aside, I use, advocate, and support the use of open-source software > wherever I think it's appropriate to do so. I also participate in mailing > lists devoted to specific pieces of open-source software on my own time. I > don't think that I have ever done anything that could be accurately > construed as "bashing" open-source. It's not the be-all and end-all of > software or security, and isn't always the answer to a problem. > What problem doesn't open source answer? World hunger maybe, but it could come close =). -Jason Yates

RE: NT/2000 vs Unix based Web Servers

2002-07-15 Thread Jason Yates
as excellent support from many companies including many different distributions. If money is a issue there are many Apache volunteer mailing lists giving Apache support. Support used to be a issue with Linux and open source products, now it rarely is. -Jason Yates -Jason

RE: Apache Problem, Hack, Worm, or Something else

2002-06-29 Thread Jason Yates
I heard of a couple other people complaining the red hat patch didn't seem to work. Maybe you didn't restart the service after you reinstalled the package. Run like a "service httpd restart" on red hat. -Jason Yates -Original Message- From: khan rohail [mailto:[EM

RE: Security impact because of old software

2002-06-29 Thread Jason Yates
urity problems are almost a mute point, and you don't have to worry about forced upgrades. -Jason Yates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Security impact because of old software H

RE: Maximum TCP connection slots in Linux

2002-06-05 Thread Jason Yates
> Even systems with 64 Gigs of memory (not that Linux can support that), can > be DOSed by TCP depending on what else they are doing. > Linux can actually support upto 64GBs on a 32 bit processor, using Intel PAE. With a 64 bit proccesor, I know SuSe has a distrubution that can support 2 terabyt

Re: Server Monitoring

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Yates
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 13:59, Robert Bailey wrote: > Looking for software that will monitor our servers and let us know when > they go down. Anyone have any suggestions as to what they would suggest? > Thanks! > > Robert check out, http://www.opennms.org -Jason Yates

Re: password management

2002-04-30 Thread Jason Yates
/www.counterpane.com/passsafe.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/ -Jason Yates

Re: strong encryption - governments denying individuals the rightto use

2002-04-26 Thread Jason Yates
There is always the terrorist's, pedophiles, and spy's ohh my, card. I personally would suggest cliche phrases like. "If we allow encryption the terrorists will win!" On a side note, I suggest you change your argument to the pro side. Bruce Schneier has written some good material on pro encryp

Re: How to get through iptables/NAT, reality and risk calculation

2002-04-25 Thread Jason Yates
I would check out, http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/fragroute/, there has been a lot of talk lately about fragroute bypassing snort detection. But it could be used against stateful firewalls as well. -Jason > -Original Message- > From: Ferry van Steen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PR

Re: Books on Math Behind Crypto.

2002-04-23 Thread Jason Yates
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 07:28, Sumit Dhar wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > To get a good understanding of Crypto a thorough understanding of the > Mathematical Concepts behind it would be necessary. > > Are there any good documents/books (preferably online) that people here > would like to recommend

microsoft and .htr overflow

2002-04-11 Thread Jason Yates
ly DON'T want a new codered. If you reading this please patch your servers. -Jason Yates