RE: strong encryption - governments denying individuals the rightto use

2002-05-03 Thread William Holmberg
Perhaps as well, they do wish to monitor as much high encryption traffic as they are able to detect, and wish to keep the signal to noise ratio down as long as they can, until they are using 2048 or better themselves... So, in the spirit of "good citizenry", we opt NOT to use the strongest, so tha

RE: Apple vs. MS - more secure?

2002-04-03 Thread William Holmberg
Well said Paul, and, I would like to point out that at the time MS became interested in Internet technologies, Macintosh servers accounted for 34% of all webservers, with the lions share going to various *nix platforms. That that has changed in favor of Windows solutions does not really mean th

RE: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-25 Thread William Holmberg
You don't know what you're missing! ;>) -Original Message- From: Bejon Parsinia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:11 PM To: William Holmberg; 'Eric Zatko'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Nessus follow up question. Bill, The only pr

RE: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-22 Thread William Holmberg
I disagree on one small point: If you try out VPC5 you will see dramatic improvements; even more enhanced if you are using a G4 processor (the VPC5 takes advantage of the Altivec engine). My .02, Bill -Original Message- From: Bejon Parsinia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, M

RE: Security Manual - Due Diligence

2002-02-20 Thread William Holmberg
http://www.techrepublic.com A great resource! -Original Message- From: Stanford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Security Manual - Due Diligence Hello All - I really need to create an "Operations Manual" type security

Any help with WinProxy?

2002-02-04 Thread William Holmberg
Newbie question, but help me if you can... :>D I have recently set up a vanilla W2kPro box with the latest updates and patches (SP@ +sec rollup + critical updates) I installed the Starband.net software (which uses a proxy itself to accellerate the downloads and deal with the 4ms delays inherent

RE: Newest Nimda variant? Scanning ftp,telnet,smtp,snmp?

2001-12-29 Thread William Holmberg
It is possibly the Zoher worm. See here: http://www.intelligentx.com/newsletters/technology/articles/story_tech1_ 122701.html -Original Message- From: Cory Flynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bill Walls Subj

RE: New Version of Retina Nimba Scanner

2001-09-23 Thread William Holmberg
I am seeing this as well. I thought we were in good shape, ran this tool and... EEEP!!! 660 infected boxes~! All showing up on my report that assures me they are patched! Any way to tweak this so it reports a bit more faithfully? -Original Message- From: John Stauffacher [mailto:[EMAIL PR