RE: a FISH?!?!

2001-06-07 Thread Alex Swavely
5 legs? The author of that one ought to take biology one more time.. > -Original Message- > From: Adam Olsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Adam Olsen > Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 1:37 AM > To: debian-security@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: a FISH?!?! > > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001

RE: a FISH?!?!

2001-06-04 Thread Alex Swavely
5 legs? The author of that one ought to take biology one more time.. > -Original Message- > From: Adam Olsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Adam Olsen > Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 1:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: a FISH?!?! > > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:27:1

Re: Ports to block?

2001-04-05 Thread Alex Swavely
The first thing I do, right off, is block all ports >1024 coming in, then get a list of what's running, and block everything else except those services I want to pass through... Brandon High wrote: > Does anyone have a recommendation of ports that should be blocked (via > ipchains/netfilter/etc)

Re: Ports to block?

2001-04-05 Thread Alex Swavely
The first thing I do, right off, is block all ports >1024 coming in, then get a list of what's running, and block everything else except those services I want to pass through... Brandon High wrote: > Does anyone have a recommendation of ports that should be blocked (via > ipchains/netfilter/etc)

RE: News server ?

2001-03-15 Thread Alex Swavely
-Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tollef Fog Heen > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:03 PM > To: debian-security@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: News server ? > > > * "Alex Swavely" > > | The program yo

RE: News server ?

2001-03-15 Thread Alex Swavely
g tracking. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tollef Fog Heen > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: News server ? > > > * "Alex Swavely" > > | The program you wo

RE: News server ?

2001-03-15 Thread Alex Swavely
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of William R. Ward > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 6:58 PM > To: debian-security@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: News server ? > [...] > I wonder if the maintainers of lists.debian.org would consider > runni

RE: News server ?

2001-03-15 Thread Alex Swavely
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of William R. Ward > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 6:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: News server ? > [...] > I wonder if the maintainers of lists.debian.org would consider > running INND and

RE: NTP security

2001-03-12 Thread Alex Swavely
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 9:29 PM > Subject: Re: NTP security > [...] > See Ultra-Link, http://www.ulio.com/ for a low cost battery powerable > atomic clock radio receiver. It has a 3V inverted TTL RS-232 lin

RE: NTP security

2001-03-12 Thread Alex Swavely
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 9:29 PM > Subject: Re: NTP security > [...] > See Ultra-Link, http://www.ulio.com/ for a low cost battery powerable > atomic clock radio receiver. It has a 3V inverted TTL RS-232 l

RE: i've been port scanned. now what

2001-03-05 Thread Alex Swavely
king `oi you, what's up, d'you mind?' or somesuch. A polite email at any level would be appreciated, I do agree.. Something along the lines of "Hey, I noticed something funny..." -- T. Alex Swavely "So I though to myself, 'if this were the coolest place in the world, would they have only one pair of rubber party pants?'"

RE: i've been port scanned. now what

2001-03-05 Thread Alex Swavely
ile asking `oi you, what's up, d'you mind?' or somesuch. A polite email at any level would be appreciated, I do agree.. Something along the lines of "Hey, I noticed something funny..." -- T. Alex Swavely "So I though to myself, 'if this were the coolest place in

RE: how secure is mail and ftp and netscape/IE???

2001-02-22 Thread Alex Swavely
> -Original Message- > From: Mike Renfro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Mike Renfro > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:30 AM > To: debian-security@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: how secure is mail and ftp and netscape/IE??? > [...] > * ttssh: ssh extension for TeraTerm Pro. Con

RE: how secure is mail and ftp and netscape/IE???

2001-02-22 Thread Alex Swavely
> -Original Message- > From: Mike Renfro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Mike Renfro > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: how secure is mail and ftp and netscape/IE??? > [...] > * ttssh: ssh extension for TeraTerm Pro. Considerably l

RE: OS Hardening

2000-12-13 Thread Alex Swavely
I think the point here is that the user WILL NOT read such documentation 90% of the time, regardless (which is why the RTFM Coffee Mug over at thinkgeek is so popular). -Original Message- From: Rainer Weikusat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 1:13 AM To: Javier

RE: OS Hardening

2000-12-13 Thread Alex Swavely
I think the point here is that the user WILL NOT read such documentation 90% of the time, regardless (which is why the RTFM Coffee Mug over at thinkgeek is so popular). -Original Message- From: Rainer Weikusat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 1:13 AM To: Javie

RE: Problems with root on network clients

2000-11-27 Thread Alex Swavely
Pretty basic: remove the floppy drives (or if your users really need them - don't know why - disable them booting in bios). Set a bios boot password and a bios change password (to different things, of course.) Finally, there usually is this nice tab with a hole sticking out the back of many cases

RE: Problems with root on network clients

2000-11-27 Thread Alex Swavely
Pretty basic: remove the floppy drives (or if your users really need them - don't know why - disable them booting in bios). Set a bios boot password and a bios change password (to different things, of course.) Finally, there usually is this nice tab with a hole sticking out the back of many case