[59100] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rr style scanning of non-customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Sun Jun 15 01:35:03 2003
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 05:34:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E19RPyd-0005CM-7u@ran.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
RB> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:22:50 -0700
RB> From: Randy Bush
RB> > Plenty of *ix idiots running vulnerable systems and "servers",
RB> > too. Follow a Cobalt mailing list and live in fear.
RB>
RB> for which there are system-specific sites telling you how to
RB> lock it down, e.g., as david lesher just pointed out,
RB>
RB> <http://www.bastille-linux.org>
RB>
RB> that fools don't use the resources is another matter. "a fool
Perhaps. That doesn't make the problem any less severe, though.
One even could argue that's worse -- people running vulnerable
systems despite the availability of lockdown information.
RB> and their data are soon parted." -- monty williams
RB>
RB> but where is the equivalent for windoze, the very common and very
RB> vulnerable opsys?
Google search for something like
securing windows lockdown
is a reasonable start.
Eddy
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