Re: Distressing, possibly life threatening emails from free accounts (yahoo, hotmail

2003-05-30 Thread bsec
After going through this personnally a few years ago, at this point I involved the police. The detective's office was great about obtaining search warrants on the system where the e-mails originated to deteremine who was sending the messages. The sender was found and eventually ended up in jail.

Re: email content monitoring / effectiveness

2003-02-14 Thread bsec
Laurence, For the last several years, we've had good success with EasyLink's MailWatch utility (www.mailwatch.com). In MailWatch you can set up filters based on addresses and content. The utility is hosted by EasyLink, thus there's nothing to install on your network and no integration issues

Database Vulnerability Scanners

2003-02-01 Thread bsec
After doing a search on Google and some other security sites, it appears that there are only two database vulnerability scanners on the market right now - ISS's Database Scanner and Application Security, Inc's AppDetective. Are there any other database vulnerability scanners out there? Has

Re: Inputs appreciated

2003-01-10 Thread bsec
Check out Trad.Goth Advisory #1: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/vuln-dev/2002/Jun/0084.html Good luck, Brett Rodel Calvario [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/03 08:12AM Hello All, Don't know if this is the right place to post this. Are the out of office messages inviting hackers to attack your

Re: Symantec Corporate AntiVirus 8.0 - thoughts

2002-11-07 Thread bsec
In our Novell environment, we have had quite a bit of success with managing the anti-virus on workstations via the System Center Console. Via the console it is very easy to set up every server and client to automatically look to a specific server for AV updates on a regular basis. Thus, you only

Re: Defense plan

2002-09-19 Thread bsec
Don't forget to educate your users on security issues. Chris Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/18/02 10:51AM The company I work for had no security at all when I started here. I've made a number of improvements, but I'm trying to come up with a defense in depth security plan, and I thought I'd