[3250] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: NT WWW server Security Holes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Knobbe)
Tue Oct 15 20:06:00 1996
From: "Frank Knobbe" <FKnobbe@ix.netcom.com>
To: John Allen <JOHNAL@attachmate.com>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 16:48:24 -0600
Reply-to: FKnobbe@ix.netcom.com
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
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On 15 Oct 96 at 9:16, John Allen wrote about: NT WWW server Security
Holes
> A client of mine recently made the comment to me that NT was a more
> secure Web server than UNIX because it was a newer operating system
> and hackers haven't found any big holes in it yet. Since I have
> never been a fan of "Security through Ignorance", I though I would
> ask the list if there are any known security holes with NT as far as
> WWW servers go. I do know that the Registry is accessible remotely,
> but is that a default setting? Is there any resources on the 'Net
> that points out potential security holes? Is there any known
> equivilents to the NSCA/phf hole in NT??
A few links to WWW and/or NT related security topics are:
<A HREF="http://www.iss.net/">Internet Security Systems, Inc.Home Page - ISS</A>
<A HREF="http://www.somarsoft.com/security.htm">Somarsoft - Windows
NTSecurity Issues</A>
<A HREF="http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html">The WWW Security FAQ</A>
<A HREF="http://www.sandcastle-ltd.com/security.html">Security & Firewalls</A>
Hope that helps,
Frank
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