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2004 May 14
2
Fwd: [ISN] Voice Over IP Can Be Vulnerable To Hackers, Too
...13, 2004 > >As voice over IP sweeps across the high-tech landscape, many IT >managers are being lulled into a dangerous complacency because they >look upon Internet phoning as a relatively secure technology--not as >an IP service susceptible to the same worms, viruses, and other >pestilence that threatens all networked systems. > >"With VoIP," security specialist Mark Nagiel said Thursday in an >interview, "we're inserting a new technology into an unsecured and >unprotected environment. VoIP is essentially availability driven, not >security driven, an...
2004 Dec 20
3
chroot-ing users coming in via SSH and/or SFTP?
A client wants me to set up a mechanism whereby his customers can drop files securely into directories on his FreeBSD server; he also wants them to be able to retrieve files if needed. The server is already running OpenSSH, and he himself is using Windows clients (TeraTerm and WinSCP) to access it, so the logical thing to do seems to be to have his clients send and receive files via SFTP or SCP.