Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/8/2011 10:46 AM Jason spake the following: Hi All, I want to know thoughts on if I am being to paranoid/security conscious. snip You know what they say; Just because you are paranoid does not mean that some one is NOT out to get you! ___

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/9/2011 11:09 AM, Scott Silva wrote: on 5/8/2011 10:46 AM Jason spake the following: Hi All, I want to know thoughts on if I am being to paranoid/security conscious. snip You know what they say; Just because you are paranoid does not mean that some one is NOT out to get you! I think

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-09 Thread David Miller
Weblabyrinth is another offensive countermeasure that no one had mentioned yet. It's still pretty new but worth keeping an eye on. It basically creates a bunch of bogus pages that traps scripts that are trying to crawl your website. It also logs anything that gets trapped so you can tie this to

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-09 Thread Jason
Weblabyrinth is another offensive countermeasure that no one had mentioned yet. It's still pretty new but worth keeping an eye on. It basically creates a bunch of bogus pages that traps scripts that are trying to crawl your website. It also logs anything that gets trapped so you can tie

[CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread Jason
Hi All, I want to know thoughts on if I am being to paranoid/security conscious. CentOS 5.6, Apache, MySQL, running an Firewall in front of everything and obviously the built-in firewall on the box. I have ssh on a different port and starting to use Keys instead of password authentication. I

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/5/8 Jason slackmoehrle.li...@gmail.com: Hi All, I want to know thoughts on if I am being to paranoid/security conscious. CentOS 5.6, Apache, MySQL, running an Firewall in front of everything and obviously the built-in firewall on the box. I have ssh on a different port and starting

[CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread R P Herrold
quick answer: even paranoids have enemies On Sun, 8 May 2011, Jason wrote: So I turned on Apache ReWrite and I created a file and I put in rules like: (just a small subset) RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/php(.*) [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/phpmy(.*) [NC,OR] .snip 2. I know

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 05/08/2011 10:46 AM, Jason wrote: 4. Why does LogWatch show this to me as a 404 , when a rewrite rule is hit and they are re-directed back to themselves? My rules seem to be working, if I try and hit /scripts right now, it does what I expect. [...] Because the remote loader is a robot,

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread Jason
Hi Russ, 3. Is there a better way to right these rules? I wrote about my approch some time ago ... http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2010/06/reading-logs-part-3-run-your-updates.html Send them safely off your box, and back home I read your article and It seems we are doing the same thing? Is

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 8 May 2011 10:46:17 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi All, I want to know thoughts on if I am being to paranoid/security conscious. CentOS 5.6, Apache, MySQL, running an Firewall in front of everything and obviously the built-in firewall on the box. I have

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread Jason
Robert, 1. Am I being to paranoid by doing this? My logic is they dont belong here and I could get mad if someone walked up to my apartment and tried jiggling the door handle to see if it was unlocked. Well, yes. There is a simplier way -- Apache does have an 'error page' handler,

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jason Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 15:02 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid? Hi Russ, 3. Is there a better way to right these rules? I

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread Eric Viseur
mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid? Hi Russ, 3. Is there a better way to right these rules? I wrote about my approch some time ago ... http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2010/06/reading-logs-part-3-run-your-update s.html Send them safely off your box

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 08:57:23PM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: You should take a look at mod_security: http://www.modsecurity.org/ , if provides better ways to block hostile attacks and probes. Really? 99 lines of untrimmed material for a 2 line reply?

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread John Hinton
On 5/8/2011 4:53 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 08:57:23PM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: You should take a look at mod_security: http://www.modsecurity.org/ , if provides better ways to block hostile attacks and probes. Really? 99 lines of untrimmed material for a 2 line

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/05/11 23:31, John Hinton wrote: I know Fail2Ban is not a CentOS standard package, but it would be nice if we could build a place on the CentOS website where rules could be shared. Each environment is a bit different and so the rules need to be adapted. I have found the need for edits