RE: running process

2002-09-27 Thread Mark L. Jackson
My first suggestion is to get off of Win95/98/ME. Second - do what the webpage for handle suggest http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/handle.shtml Read about object managers in Inside Windows 2000, and/or use winobj. As you don't say where you picked up 'handle', I can only assume this is

RE: MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAMS IN SECURITY

2002-09-21 Thread Mark L. Jackson
// I am looking for Masters degree programs in "Information // Security", "Information Assurance" or "Information Warfare". // // I live in the Washington, DC area. Now I'm aware of three local // institutions that have some form of this type of program, // George Mason, // James Madison and

RE: Personal Firewalls

2002-07-15 Thread Mark L. Jackson
// My company has a VERY distributed user base with many people // working from small satellite sites and/or from home. I would // love suggestions for a PC level firewall that would protect why only a pc level firewall? // from intrusions and also whether hardware v. software solutions //

RE: Understanding Port

2002-06-14 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> |___ 1025 network blackjack possible trojan could be an RPC request that is hitting on 1025 are you running BIND? do you have 1 - 1024 locked down? > |___ 1031 BBN IAD might be inetinfo.exe. are you running IIS? > |___ 1048 Sun's NEO Object Request Broker self explanatory. this is the port

RE: strong encryption - governments denying individuals the right to use

2002-04-29 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> That stance is indefensible. The reasons against this stance are > thus: Oh Please. All stances are defensible. They may not be rational or possible to implement from our point of view; they can certainly be defended. > > 1. Strong encryption is already available to the gener

Re: Disk Wiping Utilities

2002-03-29 Thread Mark L. Jackson
PowerQuest does not sell single licenses for this product. On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 11:54, Scott A Runnels wrote: > Look into DataGone, it's not free, but it is the NSA/DoD standard for > removal of information. Once datagone hits it, there is no getting it > back.

Re: McAfee Webshield E250

2002-03-25 Thread Mark L. Jackson
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:41:18AM -0500, Michael Bulebush wrote: > Anyway... here is my new question. Has anyone out there every deployed the McAfee WebShield E250/E500? If so, did you notice any gotchas with the boxes that I should be aware of in implementing ours. I've been having problems

RE: PGP

2002-03-25 Thread Mark L. Jackson
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 13:02, Wheeler, Bill wrote: > NAI has dropped the PGP line of products. According to a rep > from NAI, they are hoping that another company picks up the product and > integrates it into their app or OS. Apparently NAI was not making a lot of > $$ on the product and people

Re: TCP port 902: IDEAFARM-CHAT

2002-03-14 Thread Mark L. Jackson
http://www.ideafarm.com/ I believe this is like the MOO environment. I could be wrong. No comment about how I found this. mark Michael Seele wrote: > Hi there, > > can anybody explain to me, what IDEAFARM-CHAT is? > > Thanks, > > M. Seele > > >

Re: scary site

2002-03-11 Thread Mark L. Jackson
jeremy wrote: > If you do that.. you will no longer be able to access > windowsupdate.microsoft.com to download updates. Actually you could allow scripting on sites in the trusted domains (sites I believe they are called within I.E.), while disabling it for 'normal' sites. You could also put

Re: X and port 6000

2002-03-01 Thread Mark L. Jackson
>>start X with the "-nolisten tcp" , if you're starting x manually with startx >>the format would be "startx -- -nolisten tcp", if you have the system start X >>automagically edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and change: Tried this on Mandrake 7.1, and it completely blocks all TCP. Could not browse,

RE: ArcServIT 6.5 Enterprise

2002-02-09 Thread Mark L. Jackson
generally 6050 http://support.ca.com/techbases/asnt/NASNT427.html /* -Original Message- /* From: Calhoun, Heath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] /* Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:01 AM /* To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /* Subject: ArcServIT 6.5 Enterprise /* /* /* Does anyone know what port

RE: Feedback on BlackICE...

2002-02-09 Thread Mark L. Jackson
old news. >From ISS's website: --- You can download a product update to solve this problem at http://www.iss.net/support/consumer/BI_downloads.php If you are unable to download the product update for some reason, the following workaround will protect systems r

IRDA event. Any ideas why this is happening?

2002-02-04 Thread Mark L. Jackson
Does any one have any idea what this is (see below)? This particular example is only a minute. I have noticed that others have been in excess of an hour. At the time of this connection I was running ethereal to see if I could see any packets that should not be there. I could not find any that look

RE: Sendmail question

2002-01-14 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> This is a gray area in American Law. It's legal as soon as you have > informed all of your employees of what you're doing. Also, Not true, see below. > make certain > that you have them sign something to the affect that they are aware of > it. I had a case similar to that where the company

RE: IIS

2002-01-11 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> just my opinion: > > a) there are lots more apaches than IIS More Sioux than Apaches also. (j/k) Apache has been around longer and resides on systems that are geek friendly. considering the number of installations, the time it has been around, and that Apache is on systems that geeks love; doe

RE: Is there any free replacement for zone alarm ?

2002-01-11 Thread Mark L. Jackson
I have been running it for over a year on a 2 year old laptop, running win2k, with all sorts of tweaked up software; all without any problems. > I would like to note that here @ work, out of about 50 end > users, we are > noticing that about 5% of the time tiny personal firewall is > causing blue

RE: Windows networking ports

2002-01-10 Thread Mark L. Jackson
win2k ports: TCP/53 DNS zone xfer TCP/135 RPC/DCE Endpoint mapper UDP/137 NetBIOS name service TCP/139 NetBIOS session service (SMB) TCP/445 SMB over TCP (direct to host) UDP/161 SNMP TCP/UDP 389 LDAP TCP/1433 MSSQL UDP/1434 MSSQL instance mapper TCP/3268 AD Gloabel catalog TCP/3269 Global catalog

RE: Portscanning from Windows XP machine

2002-01-10 Thread Mark L. Jackson
http://www.foundstone.com/rdlabs/tools.php?category=Scanner fscan and superscan should work under XP. Have not tried them, but I see no reason for them not to function. > I`m looking for a good port scanner that will run under Windows XP. My > wishlist for it that it scans TCP, UDP and stealth

RE: IIS

2002-01-08 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> Besides this, Does it really matter what web server you > choose? Yes it does. > I have worked with many and would answer this with, > the system is as secure as the administrator of that system > is knowledgeable. I know administrators who can secure an > IIS server and others who can secure

RE: Help with legal document - network probing agreement

2002-01-08 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> I have 2 friends who own ISPs (in partnership with > others), and we have been discussing the possibilities > of their using my services as an independent security > consultant. This sounds bad already. > > What I need help with is information on how to compose > valid legal documents which al

RE: Has 3des been broken

2002-01-02 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> Let us keep in mind that the NSA has computer systems > that are at > least a decade advanced beyond what we have in the commercial/civilian How do you figure this? guess? > sector. This may seem unremarkable at first blush, but > consider that in > 1991, we were all running on machines

RE: relaying in exchange 2000

2001-12-03 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> > > I got about thirty employees outside the office that access our > > > exchange server through IMAP to get their email. Relaying was left > > > open so that it is possible for them to send out through our email > > > server regardless of how they are connected through the internet. bad idea

RE: University policies re: portscanning

2001-11-23 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> several threads from University Computing staff at other Universities and > was wondering what their policies regarding running portscans on student > computers were. Thanks in advance. You might want to check your University policies. I would guess it is spelled out that this is o.k. Most Uni

RE: HIPAA Standards

2001-11-19 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> Where can I find information on the current HIPAA Security Standards? http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/Index.htm --- U.S. Health and Human Svcs. Two pages off this page that discuss security and privacy rules (proposed and otherwise). There is also a link to implementation guides, that are more b

RE: Windows NTFS Authentication Caching

2001-11-05 Thread Mark L. Jackson
Can anyone recommend a good product that will monitor users traffic and activity on the servers? I have too many users logging onto the servers and I need a tool that will allow me to monitor more closely. Thank you. _ Get your FR

RE: Cheap Tech Manuals

2001-11-05 Thread Mark L. Jackson
Hello All, Sorry if this is not the right place to post. I am trying to implement an IDS and not sure on which brand to implement, currently we use Checkpoint Firewall-1 for our firewall. I have heard that real secure IDS is good for integrating with Checkpoint. My question is doe

RE: W2K where to start??

2001-10-24 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> Start at the vendor's site http://www.microsoft.com/security. just remember where the info is coming from. MS is not open about security issues. > >I'm a unix / Mac guy. I agreed to set up a test installation of W2K > >Advanced Server because the M$ rep has always been nice. I would advise r

RE: Sharing Folders

2001-10-21 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> NT does not have a built in time sync. They added that utility in the NT > 4.0 Resource Kit. Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) does have it built in. Been using this for years. --- rem set time on machine rem @echo off net time /set /yes rem share out folders rem

Small office Firewall.

2001-10-18 Thread Mark L. Jackson
Recently I recommended the PGP E-pliance with regards to this thread. This morning my channel partner informed me that PGP is being folded into Mcafee (due to not being able to sell the division I presume). I was told that the entire PGP staff was given 'final checks' and sent home. With that in m

RE: IPX question

2001-09-16 Thread Mark L. Jackson
> > I'm just a student, so this is probably a dumb question. > In a lecture, it was mentioned that ipx was the "older way" > oppose to ... maybe vpn... i don't remember, but I was wondering > what ipx is and the benifits of using it over newer options? I > remember people on this list talking abo