Re: Question for you all

2003-07-03 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 17:49, CreativeSell wrote: Hi All, Having just got off an awful php host, my partner and I have decided to get our own redhat server. However we are slightly apprhhensive about ebing hacked to pieces. we are keeping up to date with all bugtracks and security

Re: Ten least secure programs

2003-07-03 Thread Mitch Pirtle
Good morning Tim! Glad to see you in such a great mood. :^P On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 13:19, Tim Greer wrote: How is CGI an insecure program? It's an interface, and actually, I'm not aware of any security issues with this interface. If you mean that it allows for a means for a user on a

Re: Part 2 - Best tools to put on Linux Laptop

2003-07-03 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:29, Potter, Tim wrote: If you were building a laptop for the purpose of network monitoring, sniffing, forensics and security audits, what tools would you put on it? Here's a good list to keep you busy (and your disk full): http://www.insecure.org/tools.html --

Re: Ten least secure programs

2003-07-02 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 18:08, Chris Berry wrote: I'm putting together a list of what seem to be the ten least secure computer items in use today with the idea of having a set of things to recommend AGAINST people using, probably to be posted on the IT room door with a note like NO, you

Re: Firewall on server itself

2003-06-26 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 02:24, Anish Basu wrote: I am trying to set up a secure web server which will already be protected by a dedicated harware firewall. The hardware firewall will be configured to protect the web server as well other computers on the network. The web server will be running

Re: AW: security-basics Digest 18 Jun 2003 22:09:15 -0000 Issue 618

2003-06-26 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:32, David Wallraff wrote: why is it harder to sniff over a switced network? i understand it's becasue of the switch (natch), but what makes it more difficult? short_answer Because when you fire up ettercap to look around, you now have to poison the switch* first.

Re: Broadband usage statistics

2003-06-24 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 10:41, Keenan Smith wrote: All, Is anybody aware of a survey or study of some sort that details a typical user's broadband usage relative to the size of the pipe? Going in which direction? With your garden variety DSL line, I can get a 512k connection downstream, and