Hello World!

Slackware 11 and trying to figure out why my nmap scans are not being detected!

Scanning from a BSD box which I haved ssh'ed into, yet do not have
root, therefore using -sT.

With my DD-WRT firewall disabled:

Starting nmap 3.55 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-11-26 18:19 CS

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I am evaluating the overall security of Red Hat linux vs Debian. I've been told that Debian has many more vulnerabilities than Red Hat. I've also been told that Red Hat is quicker to release security patches than Debian is for the "stable" release. Can someone point me to a good overall assessmen

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I would suggest you use a authentication
mechanism, Since the server only authenticates local clients i would recommend the local passwd
authentication scheme.

Also the thing to notice is you basically need
some type of access control, and access control requires three things authentication, aut

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Hello.

I have the following situation:
- Client communicates with server via TCP or UDP.
- Both client and server are on the same local host.
- Server runs with root privilege.

Now, client connects to server. Server has to check uid of the client. How it can be done?
I need a solution that can b

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Hi,

Most attacks these days seem (vastly) distributed, the most effective
thing I have found is to use grey listing as this stops 99%+ of botnets
dead, they simply do not re-try the connection later. Personally I have
found no other technique as effective.

regards

Steven Jones
Senior Linux/Unix/

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>> rowland onobrauche wrote:

>>> I would like to hear from anyone that has successfully blocked
>>> spambots or dictionary attacks without the need of another server
>>> in between your mailserver and the senders.

>> Peter H. Lemieux wrote:
>> The only effective solution I've found in these cases

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Greg Metcalfe wrote:

> On Friday 17 November 2006 08:02, rowland onobrauche wrote:
>
>> I would like to hear from anyone that has successfully blocked
>> spambots or dictionary attacks without the need of another server
>> in between your mailserver an

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I would like to hear from anyone that has successfully blocked
spambots or dictionary attacks without the need of another server in
between your mailserver and the senders.
The mailserver on my end is exim and it is actually a virtual server,
so i canno

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On Monday 13 November 2006 12:44, you wrote:
>hi Greg!

>i fully agree that solutions submitted here are suggestions and might not
>apply for all contexts, but I'm sure it helps to create new solutions and
>ideas that might be valid for many of the current architectures, so in my
>opinion, all sugg

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