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Securing Your Network?
Barkmullz asks: "I just recently finished yet another security review on the network at my place of employment. I designed the different security features from scratch and I am using a variety of devices and software (firewalls, IDS, DMZs, and so on). I like to look at network security with the same attitude as I look on the stock market: diversify. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. As I was pondering the review results I wondered what a completely unbiased observer would think of my security. I remember thinking that someone should start a radio show similar to James Cramer's RealMoney and ask the listeners: Are you secure? I am aware of what the NSA considers to be a secure network, but, honestly, who has read that stuff? What do you consider to be a secure network? What low-budget security features have you come up with? I don't think I am the only one spending evenings and weekends playing around with yet another IDS."
This FP is for you!
Someone post the "Night Defender" for old times sake!
such as one written by the linux twins, linus and mina
The Night Defender Fat Eugenia Loli Fat
Sweating and farting nervously on the verge of mental meltdown, ELQ reloads each of her precious OSNews pages, making sure all is well. Fifty Internet Explorer windows are open in Windows XP, it's grinding the hard drive to death. ELQ's cable modem and NIC activity LEDs are nearly solid from the raw frenzy of almost constant browser reloading. Eugenia's eyes twitch rapidly from window to window with Mercurial speed to make sure that any rogue comments do not escape her attention, always hitting her refresh buttons with pinpoint accuracy. No logical order for checking, purely random and impulse driven by raw Mediterranean temper, stopping for the occasional savage bite from a pork loin still affixed to the bone, Eugenia's eyes never leave the monitor.
"N-n-n-n NO! No TIME for Dance Dance Revolution, oh but it's been so long! I cannot allow the BASTARD flooders' comments to be seen. MY DOMAIN IS SACRED!"
Hair is frizzled and days unwashed, ass-crack just barely half wiped in a frenzy to return to her monitor, having taken a large shit earlier. No time to flush! Her armpits are over-ridden with pubic hair, her fat flaps reek of B.O. and yeast from days of neglect and hour upon hour of sweating. Relentless sweating.
"Cannot to be keeps up this pace! I may be need to go to hospital for exhaustions" she pants in desperation, wiping the sweat from a matted hair lock with her week-old t-shirt offering.
The hour of judgment approaches! Comment number 45 in thread 374 is clearly of anti-Greek sentiment! It reads "Eugenia continues to post yet another story that's simply ripped off from other websites. How much longer can this continue? It's my opinion that she has poor editorial skills. I think they should be revoked."
"YOU BASTARD FUCK!", Eugenia erupts in raw hatred, simultaneously ripping a 120 decibel-at-1-meter fart into the back of her chair. "Nobody is to be attack my site!" Eugenia blasts away at 10 words per minute in a barely-coherent broken English. She's on a mission. After several hours, the words on the screen are completely shattered and in disarray, they make no sense. Eugenia is impressed with her English progress and submits her lousy retort. Relaxing only for several seconds to savor the rush, she continues her patrol, sleepless into the night.
run for the hills, folks... we've slashdotted the NSA, Sam Fischer's a-comin'!!!
Why would ssh offer less vulerabilities than ftp?? It depends on the client, and a Buffer overflow hole is a buffer overflow hole no matter what protocol you're using.
SSH just ensures plaintext passwords aren't bouncing around your network.
-- I have SARS , hold your breath.