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...seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30v_g83VHK4 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

...kell, Technical Support, AgResearch Invermay 03 489-9279 "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." -- Gene "spaf" Spafford (1992) ======================================================================= Attention: The information contained in this message and/or attachments from AgResearch Limited is intended only for the persons or entities to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged materi...

Hi, I have put entries into the "hosts" file for all the machines which need to connect to our Samba server. Everything seems to be working correctly but I'm curious.... can anyone tell me what the other files "hosts.deny" and "hosts.allow" are for. Thanks Mike

For someone that wants to begin securing his or her network. What would be the starting point ? I guess in sort of a check list format. I mean as of now Im not administering a network. But in the old company I used to work for. Security was a big problem there were no polices in place. And in what ways can one reduce the amount of work it take to keep up with securing and monitoring a diversed

...seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30v_g83VHK4 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

...the array with *pcin>127 2. pcin is declared as pointer to char, which caused a negative offset for chars in range above 127. (and which actually caused coredump in this case) bellow is the patch to tripwire 1.2 (as it is on coast.cs.purdue.edu, and ftp.redhat.com sites), and message from Gene Spafford which I received for responce to my message. I wasn't able to test this bug on commercial tripwire, but since people still use free version, this problem still might be applicable. regards Fyodor -<cut here>- --- src/utils.c.orig Mon Jul 25 22:23:16 1994 +++ src/utils.c Sun Jan 3 15...

...ves the desired domain. Once a response is received from the second nameserver, the first nameserver sends the response back to the requesting party. The following attack is outlined in the paper "Addressing weaknesses in the Domain Name System Protocol" by Christopher Schuba and Eugene Spafford [6]. To the extent of our knowledge, this problem has not been previously addressed. The paper also assumes that the attacker has super-user access to a primary nameserver, here we demonstrate that this is not necessary nor are source routed packets required. Using the recursion feature, one can...

...t; > >- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Our thanks go to Marko Laakso and Ari Takanen of the Secure Programming >Group of the University of Oulu; Eric Allman and Gregory Shapiro >of Sendmail, Inc; AUSCERT; DFN-CERT; John Hardin; and Gene Spafford of >Purdue University for their input. >- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >NO WARRANTY >- ----------- > >Any material furnished by Carnegie Mellon University and the Software >Engineering Institute is furnished on an "as i...