[olug] Security

[Mike Peterson]

What happened?
What server did it happen to?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate Rotschafer" <writetogenius at hotmail.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 5:48 PM
Subject: [olug] Security


> A very valuable lesson for someone starting out or a profesional managing
> many servers was learned by a couple of us last night.  You are never
secure
> if you have any external access to your network be it SSH,
> internet...anything really.  If someone wants in they will find a way in
and
> the only way around it is a strict security policy such that people are
not
> running services that can be exploited to gain access to a computer on an
> internal network.  So please tomorrow let us stress security in this day
and
> age when any little "script kiddie" can get access on your
computer...let's
> help the new people configure ipf properly to only allow what they really
> really want to have external access to have it.  Let's explain that
> sometimes security means reduced "fluff".  It is a lesson we learned last
> night/this morning very well I believe...right Brian?  Just my $.02....
>
> Nate Rotschafer
>
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