Re: passwords

2003-02-19 Thread simsjs
Hey ullmic, This makes sense in the fact that I can see why you do that. But, you need to keep in mind if the user is forced to change their password every 90 days the probability of picking what we would call a "good" password are probably slim. They will usually pick something that is easy to

Re: free XP firewall

2003-02-14 Thread simsjs
Outpost firewall has worked well for me for about a year now. There is a free version and a professional version. Allows you to set rules for both incoming and outgoing connections. You can find it at http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpostfree.html *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2

Re: VPN & PPPoE

2003-01-23 Thread simsjs
Paul, I haven't had this problem before, but I would have to at least guess that the problem is with the wireless router. Maybe it is filtering traffic or causing some other problem. If you haven't done so already, try connecting the pc directly to the dsl and see if that makes a difference or

Re: Sendmail 8.11 configuration/security issue

2003-01-03 Thread simsjs
Although I haven't written a rule to do this, you should be able to use procmail to create a rule for this. You could check the "From:" line and if it matches yourdomain.com then check the "Received: from" to make sure that is your smtp server. If it is not then filter it, move it, modify it,

Re: Low end machines for Firewall/IDS

2002-12-03 Thread simsjs
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Re: IP Session Hijacking And Spoofing

2002-11-26 Thread simsjs
ts replies? Source >routing tells the routers between you and the destination the next hops >for the packet. As far as I am aware, there is no requirement that the >destination employ the reverse path in its replies. > > > >>> From: simsjs [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >&

Re: IP Session Hijacking And Spoofing

2002-11-25 Thread simsjs
With IP Spoofing there is no need to guess the sequence number since there is no session currently open with that IP address. The way that the traffic would get back to you is by using source routing. This is where you tell the network how to route the output and input from a session, then you s

RE: Re: Secure Intranet?

2002-11-05 Thread simsjs
If someone has the time, resources, knowlege and ability to break into your systems, then nothing is going to be secure enough. Basically any time you make confidential data available outside your organization or even inside for that matter, you have to weigh the risks with the benefits. If the

Re: Sendmail virus scanner

2002-10-29 Thread simsjs
If you just want to do something with attachments and not actually scan for viruses. you can try sanitizer located at http://mailtools.anomy.net/ This will either defang or drop emails based on attachments. You can quarentine the emails along with many other things. It runs in conjuntion with p