[282] in Best-of-Security
BoS: best-of-security moved and back open!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Reed)
Sun Jul 27 07:10:18 1997
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 19:37:36 +1000 (EST)
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Dear Best-Of-Security Readers,
After a short break, and a change of location,
best-of-security is reopening. Hopefully it has been a safe transition that
hasn't resulted in too many problems being created. I'll be starting the
list unmoderated, but if it gets too chatty or too much crap, I'll switch
it over to being moderated. Currently only the list itself is available,
but with time I'll get the digest up and running (and maybe the archiving).
The new address is: best-of-security@cyber.com.au
Just as a reminder, I'm including the charter for the list, which is almost
the same (one change).
Cheers,
Darren
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BOS(8) Security Guru's Manual BOS(8)
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BOS - Best of all available security resources.
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BEST OF SECURITY
DIGEST
SYNOPSIS
"echo subscribe|mail best-of-security-request@cyber.com.au"
DESCRIPTION
In order to make the average security administrator, it was found
the compiler had to parse a foreboding number of exceptionally noisy
and semantically devoid data sets. This typically resulted in
dramatically high load averages and a frightening increase in core
entropy.
Further, the number, names and locations of required datum seemed to
change on an almost daily basis; requiring tedious version control
on the part of the mental maintainer.
OPERATION
Clever BOS subscribers scour their brains and the world for
interesting security material and send it to the clever moderator.
The clever moderator then attempts to decide if the clever
subscriber was quite as clever as the clever subcriber had hoped. If
the answer is in the affirmative, the clever moderator sends the
clever information to all the clever BOS subscribers who get a bit
cleverer.
We do, of course take many original posts. In the famous last words of
Marylin Munroe, CORE Digest and Joachim Kroll: "meat, we want meat".
OPTION NEGOTIATION
WILL WILL WILL WILL WONT WONT WONT WONT
DO DO DO DO DONT DONT DONT DONT
8lgm, cert, ciac, dod and other Any flames.
non-vendor advisories. Any questions.
Vendor advisories of security Any rumors.
weaknesses in own or other products. Sigs with >2 lines of
Vendor new security-product line commercial information.
release or MAJOR upgrade. Minor upgrade information.
Fully disclosed security weaknesses. Twag, frig or drofo.
Exploitation details. Advertising.
Exploitation code. Un/Subscription requests.
Patch code. Mailing list queries.
Patch announcements. Requests. Get it your self.
Hard to obtain or otherwise occulted Vague or incomprehensible
source code or uuencoded executables. statements from dysfuctional
Conference announcements. persons.
Security tools. Opinionated rantings such as
NEW or hard to obtain security those on the ethics of full
documents (ascii), or pointers to disclosure or computer hackers.
the location of such documents/papers. Quotes from the Illiad.
Announcements of new security archives. Off meat. We like it fresh.
or mailinglists. Elite security trojans.
Translations of the above. Attempts at KOTM.
Messages under 700 bytes.
SUBSCRIBING
Send mail to:
best-of-security-request@cyber.com.au
with the subject or body of:
subscribe
UN-SUBSCRIBING
Send mail to:
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with the subject or body:
unsubscribe
POSTING
To send a message to the list, address it to:
best-of-security@cyber.com.au
EXAMPLES
Subscribing:
mail best-of-security-request@cyber.com.au
Subject: luv me foomaster
subscribe
Unsubscribing:
mail best-of-security-request@cyber.com.au
Subject: foo you
unsubscribe
Posting:
mail best-of-security@cyber.com.au
Subject: Backdoor in foosecure
ARCHIVES
Back issues of BOS are available from:
ftp://ftp.cyber.com.au/pub/archive/b-o-s/
BUGS
You bet.
TECHNICAL
The list processor software is based on the excellent
Procmail/Smartlist by Stephen R. van den Berg
<berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> with some minor extensions
by Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>.
DARPA grant #N00015-95-J-4124
MODERATOR/EDITOR
None.
