Re: LinkedIn password database compromised

2012-06-20 Thread AP NANOG
I normally don't respond and just sit back leeching knowledge, however this incident with LinkedIn & eHarmony strikes close to home. Not just because my password was in this list of dumped LinkedIn accounts, but the fact that this incident struck virtually every business professional and corpo

Re: LinkedIn password database compromised

2012-06-20 Thread AP NANOG
Exactly! Passwords = Fail All we can do is make it as difficult as possible for them to crack it until the developers decide to make pretty eye candy. - Robert Miller (arch3angel) On 6/20/12 3:43 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 03:30:58PM -0400, AP

Re: LinkedIn password database compromised

2012-06-21 Thread AP NANOG
I have two concerns with this thought, while at the same time intrigued by it. How will this prevent man in the middle attacks, either at the users location, the server location, or even on the compromised server itself where the attacker is just gathering data. This is the same concerns we

Re: LinkedIn password database compromised

2012-06-21 Thread AP NANOG
hnologies that work with each other. In a message written on Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:43:44AM -0400, AP NANOG wrote: How will this prevent man in the middle attacks, either at the users location, the server location, or even on the compromised server itself where the attacker is just gathering data.

Re: How to fix authentication (was LinkedIn)

2012-06-21 Thread AP NANOG
I still believe that the final solution should be some sort of two factor, something you know (i.e. a passphrase) and something you have (i.e. key / token / something which has been verified). Up till recently RSA was a good platform, but was not very effective for smartphone use. If there i

Re: How to fix authentication (was LinkedIn)

2012-06-22 Thread AP NANOG
I used the example I did based on YubiKey, I own one and use it on a regular basis. The real issue I am trying to make is the fact that even in the scenario I placed forward it still requires trust. Trust of a person or trust of a company. This reminds me of a quote: Onl

Re: Automatic attack alert to ISPs

2012-06-22 Thread AP NANOG
+1 - Took the letters right out from under my fingers :-) -- - Robert Miller (arch3angel) On 6/22/12 4:44 AM, Barry Greene wrote: Shadowserver.org has a public benefit notification service. Sent from my iPad On Jun 22, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Yang Xiang wrote: Argus can alert prefix hijacking,

Re: LinkedIn password database compromised

2012-06-22 Thread AP NANOG
Still playing devils advocate here, but does this still not resolve the human factor of "Implementation"? -- - Robert Miller (arch3angel) On 6/22/12 7:43 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:43:44PM -0700, Leo Bicknell wrote: (on the use of public/privat

Re: How to fix authentication (was LinkedIn)

2012-06-25 Thread AP NANOG
Kyle, I may be mistaken here, but I don't believe anyone is truly laughing the matter off. There may have been some remarks about second or third parties, but the fact does remain these are the areas which current concerns still lay. -- Robert Miller (arch3angel) On 6/24/12 1:02 AM, Kyle

Re: DNS poisoning at Google?

2012-06-27 Thread AP NANOG
This may not help Matt now, but I just came across this today and believe it may help others who have to deal with incidents: http://cert.societegenerale.com/en/publications.html --> "IRM (Incident Response Methodologies)" If you changed the file contents before noting the created date, mod

Re: No DNS poisoning at Google (in case of trouble, blame the DNS)

2012-06-27 Thread AP NANOG
On 6/27/12 12:51 PM, Matthew Black wrote: Ask and ye shall receive: # more .htaccess (backup copy) #c3284d# RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*(abacho|abizdirectory|acoon|alexana|allesklar|allpages|allthesites|alltheuk|alltheweb|alt avista|america|amfibi|aol|apollo7|aport|arcor|a

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-02 Thread AP NANOG
While I was working for a wireless telecom company our primary datacenter was knocked off the power grid due to weather, the generators kicked on and everything was fine, till one generator was struck by lighting and that same strike fried the control panel on the second one. Considering the s

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

2012-07-02 Thread AP NANOG
Do you happen to know all the kernels and versions affected by this? -- Thank you, Robert Miller http://www.armoredpackets.com Twitter: @arch3angel On 7/1/12 12:44 PM, George Bonser wrote: -Original Message- From: Roy Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 10:03 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subje

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-02 Thread AP NANOG
This is an excellent example of how tests "should" be ran, unfortunately far too many places don't do this... -- Thank you, Robert Miller http://www.armoredpackets.com Twitter: @arch3angel On 7/2/12 12:09 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:30:06AM -0400,

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-02 Thread AP NANOG
I believe in my dictionary Chaos Gorilla translates into "Time To Go Home", with a rough definition of "Everything just crapped out - The world is ending"; but then again I may have hat incorrect :-) -- Thank you, Robert Miller http://www.armoredpackets.com Twitter: @arch3angel On 7/2/12 2:

Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches

2013-12-30 Thread [AP] NANOG
Sabri, As I was going through reading all these replies, the one thing that continued to poke at me was the requirement of the signed binaries and microcode. The same goes for many of the Cisco binaries, without direct assistance, which is unclear at this point through the cloud of smoke so to sp

Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches

2013-12-30 Thread [AP] NANOG
Roland, I did fail to mention the HUMINT (Human Intelligence) side of things, thank you for bringing that up! -- Thank you, Robert Miller http://www.armoredpackets.com Twitter: @arch3angel On 12/30/13, 11:33 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > On Dec 31, 2013, at 11:06 AM, [AP] NANOG wr

Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

2011-04-13 Thread AP NANOG
I would look into Asatro, they have a solid product and good support. If you want a contact person let me know and I will email you directly. On 4/9/11 11:55 AM, pr...@cnsny.net wrote: Andrew, We use and offer Postini - a front end service. Postini is a anti virus and spam filter, and can spo