Re: hardening checkpoints

2005-12-15 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting kevin bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > 4. enhance authentication > > maybe set up ssh access by authorised keys only - but again this has a > problem when i need to log in to the server from a putty session on a PC in > an internet cafe . > Buy a laptop. Trusting an unknown PC in an

Re: Port 699 listening

2005-12-14 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Alex Pankratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > Did, and that made both 111 and 699 not show up in nmap scan. sweet, > thanks Jeffery. I could swear that in the past I saw 111 open and I > sort of ignored it, why would 699 be open now, and then closed? why is > statd running, i dont use NFS. >

Re: Port 699 listening

2005-12-14 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
See interspersed comments below. Quoting Alex Pankratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My apologies in advance if this is the wrong place to ask this, this > is my first time asking for help.. > > What is running on port 699? I only have squid, ssh, and dhcpd > listening on my 2 internal interfaces, but n

Re: [Fwd: security]

2005-01-30 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
This requires the ipt_recent IPtables module, among others, and it is in 2.4.22+ and 2.6 kernels. Both in testing. And requires upgrading libc6, so use at your own risk. Jeffrey Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A possible improvement: > > http://www.soloport.co

Re: [Fwd: security]

2005-01-29 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
A possible improvement: http://www.soloport.com/iptables.html Quoting Steve Suehring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Could it be this? > > http://lists.sans.org/pipermail/intrusions/2004-August/008357.html > > You didn't specify which usernames were being used, so it's tough to > tell if that's the

Re: Someone scanned my ssh daemon

2003-06-15 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Mark Devin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hash: SHA1 > > It looks as though someone is trying to crack my box through ssh. This > is what logcheck emailed me: > - -- snip -- > Jun 16 04:36:02 jack sshd[20026]: Connection from 212.202.204.149 port 2323 > Jun 16 04:36:03 jack sshd[20027]: Connectio

Re: Someone scanned my ssh daemon

2003-06-15 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Mark Devin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hash: SHA1 > > It looks as though someone is trying to crack my box through ssh. This > is what logcheck emailed me: > - -- snip -- > Jun 16 04:36:02 jack sshd[20026]: Connection from 212.202.204.149 port 2323 > Jun 16 04:36:03 jack sshd[20027]: Connectio

Re: Recommended security management packages

2003-05-21 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm looking for information on packages that will do a nice job of keeping > an eye on my system security-wise. PackageS because I know that no one > packages can do it all. > > Currently all I've got is 'tiger', and while it does a good job it has > issues like

Re: SANS Alert - Snort Vulnerability - stil Vulnerabile ?

2003-04-04 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Przemys?aw ?widerski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:53:48PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > > > > > >This was added to the SANS Advisory on Sendmail last week. > > > >I have not seen any news nor postings related to Snort with > > > >Debian and was wondering ab

Re: SANS Alert - Snort Vulnerability - stil Vulnerabile ?

2003-04-04 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Przemys?aw ?widerski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:53:48PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > > > > > >This was added to the SANS Advisory on Sendmail last week. > > > >I have not seen any news nor postings related to Snort with > > > >Debian and was wondering ab

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Dariush Pietrzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > of the data that you will want. RRDs do not expand once they are created, > > so once it wraps and starts to overwrite old data, it is lost. > Well, that's the idea behind rrd, and I don't like it. You don't overwrite > your security logs, why wou

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-14 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Dariush Pietrzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > of the data that you will want. RRDs do not expand once they are created, > > so once it wraps and starts to overwrite old data, it is lost. > Well, that's the idea behind rrd, and I don't like it. You don't overwrite > your security logs, why wou

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-13 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting gabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I would like to know what ppl think is the best package for monitor > servers, at my last work place they were installing "mon". In my new > job they use Nagios, which I'm not to sure about due to the fact that > installation / configuration goes wrong. Most

Re: machine monitoring packages

2003-02-13 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting gabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I would like to know what ppl think is the best package for monitor > servers, at my last work place they were installing "mon". In my new > job they use Nagios, which I'm not to sure about due to the fact that > installation / configuration goes wrong. Most

Re: suspicious lpd started

2003-02-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
What is listening on port 514 (netstat -ant)? Jeffrey Quoting Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just want to add lpd is not listening on any port according to lsof > or netstat > > On February 11, 2003 11:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 3 days after starting my potato system lpd sta

Re: suspicious lpd started

2003-02-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > 3 days after starting my potato system lpd started to run. > system started Feb 6 > ps output: > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 6833 0.0 1.3 1052 412 ? SFeb09 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd > root 6836 0.0 1.5

Re: suspicious lpd started

2003-02-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
What is listening on port 514 (netstat -ant)? Jeffrey Quoting Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just want to add lpd is not listening on any port according to lsof > or netstat > > On February 11, 2003 11:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 3 days after starting my potato system lpd sta

Re: suspicious lpd started

2003-02-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > 3 days after starting my potato system lpd started to run. > system started Feb 6 > ps output: > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 6833 0.0 1.3 1052 412 ? SFeb09 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd > root 6836 0.0 1.5

Re: Apologies re: VPN + Roadwarrior

2002-12-13 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
> On Thursday, 2002-12-12 at 13:02:41 -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: >> Sorry for the multiple sends. Some of the original addresses had >> typos that I corrected and resent. Bad dog! > > Still no cookie, bad dog :-P > > http://ipsec.wit.antd.nist.gov/ Host does not resolve > http://i

Re: Apologies re: VPN + Roadwarrior

2002-12-12 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
> On Thursday, 2002-12-12 at 13:02:41 -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: >> Sorry for the multiple sends. Some of the original addresses had >> typos that I corrected and resent. Bad dog! > > Still no cookie, bad dog :-P > > http://ipsec.wit.antd.nist.gov/ Host does not resolve > http://i