Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-18 Thread Travis H.
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:05:25AM -0800, Matthew Black wrote: > This presupposes that corporations have a more significant claim > to domain names than individuals. Not necessarily; if I am providing login details to a phishing site, I have probably visited the actual business web site before to

Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-18 Thread Fergie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Back in the day, pre-CIRA, .CA was managed according to rules which >> included the restriction that a single company was only allowed one >> domain name. So, to choose a company at random, General Mo

Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-18 Thread Randy Bush
> Back in the day, pre-CIRA, .CA was managed according to rules which > included the restriction that a single company was only allowed one > domain name. So, to choose a company at random, General Motors Canada > was welcome to GMC.CA but they couldn't also register PONTIAC.CA or > GM.CA

Re: FW: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-01-18 Thread Henning Brauer
* Berkman, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-18 22:34]: > Cacti is a free open source tool, and in my opinion these should never > be expected to be 100% free of bugs, errors, and exploits. very much opposed to commercial software, where you can be 100% sure that they are full of bugs, errors,

RE: FW: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-01-18 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 14:33 -0700, Berkman, Scott wrote: > There is this Network Management theory called Out of Band Management. Which is rarely properly applied. I lost count of the data centers that block mgmt traffic from external customers, but leave internal systems (which are often "sublet

RE: FW: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-01-18 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Berkman, Scott wrote: NMS Software should not be placed in the public domain/internet. By the time anyone who would like to attack Cacti itself can access the server and malform an HTTP request to run this attack, then can also go see your entire topology and access your

RE: FW: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-01-18 Thread Berkman, Scott
NMS Software should not be placed in the public domain/internet. By the time anyone who would like to attack Cacti itself can access the server and malform an HTTP request to run this attack, then can also go see your entire topology and access your SNMP keys (assuming v1). There is this Network

Re: FW: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-01-18 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: For those who don't have the time/care enough to go look at the Secunia report, I'll summarise it: 1) cmd.php and copy_cacti_user.php both blindly pass arguments passed in the URL to system(). This, IMHO, is reason enough to not run this softwar

Re: DNS Query Question

2007-01-18 Thread Dennis Dayman
David Ulevitch wrote: Dennis Dayman wrote: I have a customer having some DNS issues. They have done some research regarding some DNS timeout errors they saw with Verizon's sender verify looking up their MX records. What they have discovered is their current DNS service has a 1% failure/timeo

Re: FW: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-01-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:40:06AM -0600, Gadi Evron wrote: > Many of us run cacti. FYI. Thanks for posting this, even though it's slightly OT. Not to start an opinion war, but those who do run Cacti should really consider removing this software from their boxes permanently. http://secunia.com/

Re: DNS Query Question

2007-01-18 Thread David Ulevitch
Dennis Dayman wrote: I have a customer having some DNS issues. They have done some research regarding some DNS timeout errors they saw with Verizon's sender verify looking up their MX records. What they have discovered is their current DNS service has a 1% failure/timeout rate. They are explor

FW: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-01-18 Thread Gadi Evron
Many of us run cacti. FYI. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:26:37 -0500 From: Warner Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Subject: FW: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released That's right, it's not vendor specific guys. Yay! ---

DNS Query Question

2007-01-18 Thread Dennis Dayman
I have a customer having some DNS issues. They have done some research regarding some DNS timeout errors they saw with Verizon's sender verify looking up their MX records. What they have discovered is their current DNS service has a 1% failure/timeout rate. They are exploring other vendors (Ult

RE: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-18 Thread Joseph Jackson
What about companies that do business under different Dab's? I know of a lot of companies that do business under different names for different products. Joseph -Original Message- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 7:04 AM To: Joe Abley

Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-18 Thread Matthew Black
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:38:14 -0600 "Travis H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...snip] The domain name system has enough problems (is mazdausa.com really related to mazda.com?) without involving javascript and ActiveX, but they could be corrected with proper education (how about keeping every URL

Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:43:37AM -0500, Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 25 lines which said: > Back in the day, pre-CIRA, .CA was managed according to rules which > included the restriction that a single company was only allowed one > domain name. Same thing in ".fr", until

Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-18 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
Back in the day, pre-CIRA, .CA was managed according to rules which included the restriction that a single company was only allowed one domain name. So, to choose a company at random, General Motors Canada was welcome to GMC.CA but they couldn't also register PONTIAC.CA

Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-18 Thread Joe Abley
On 17-Jan-2007, at 21:05, Joseph Jackson wrote: Proper education for whom, the people setting up the site probably know this already. It's the bosses and marketing that don't care about DNS structure. Damn it they want mazdausa.com and not usa.mazda.com and they will have it their way! At