securety

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at shellworld.net
Fri Dec 14 02:58:00 UTC 2007


I didn't waste time with forensics I didn't have that many machines then 
so wiped the systems and tightened up security a bit more.  The other 
problem then was not enough hard drives and no drive sleds so drives 
couldn't be swapped out like I can do now.



On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, John Heim wrote:

> Jude,
>
> I don't suppose you would explain how hackers got the root kits installed, 
> would you? I think it would be helpful if you explained what they did and 
> what you did to stop them.
>
> I've had only 2 security issues in my career. I can explain how they happened 
> but they probably won't be real useful. Both problems were on my Windows 
> machine. One time I installed a virus by accidently clicking on an email 
> attachment. That was just a accidental key press. The other thing was that i 
> got malware on my Windows PC  by going to a malicious web site. I was not 
> running anti-virus software at the time because it slowed the machine down 
> too much.
>
> So I don't really have any useful advice other than to not accidently press 
> the wrong key when reading mail and run anti-virus software on your Windows 
> PC.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:08 PM
> Subject: Re: securety
>
>
>>  arnos-iptables-firewall is accessible and still under active support. you
>>  can get it with apt-get install arnos-iptables-firewall.  It's pretty easy
>>  to set up too.  It needs to know what you use in terms of an ethernet port
>>  to connect to the internet usually that's eth0 and you protect your web
>>  interface with ppp+ keyed in space separated when asked.  Unless you have
>>  very good reasons to open ports you're asked about after that leave the
>>  defaults in place. The area where I live is under active hacker attack and
>>  my computer was victimized more than once (actually found root kits on it
>>  more than once).  But then again some neighborhoods are hotter for hackers
>>  than others when they have other inviting targets in them.  I had to
>>  upgrade my dsl modem to a westel 327w and got help from another programmer
>>  who came over and set it up and he ran my computer against
>>  http://www.grc.com and the shields up link and found the computer was
>>  truely stealthed which means its profile is too low for hackers to locate.
>>  Each of us will have a different security experience to report over time
>>  though.
>>
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