RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Scott Weeks
--- snasl...@medline.com wrote: From: "Naslund, Steve" You are free to disagree all you want with the default deny-all policy but it is a DoD 5200.28-STD requirement and NSA Orange Book TCSEC requirement. It is baked into all approved secure operating systems including SELINUX so it is

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 02:21:40PM +, Naslund, Steve wrote: > Allowing an internal server with sensitive data out to "any" is a > serious mistake and so basic that I would fire that contractor immediately > (or better yet impose huge monetary penalties. I concur, and have been

Cell tower backup plans

2018-10-10 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Naslund, Steve wrote: I am wondering if this seems common to most of you on here. In my area it seems that all cellular sites have backup generators and battery backup. Seems like the biggest issues we see are devices remote from the central offices that lose power and

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Jamie Bowden
> From: NANOG On Behalf Of Naslund, Steve > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 1:06 PM > If there was a waiver issued for your ATO, it would have had to have been > issued by a > department head or the OSD and approved by the DoD CIO after Director DISA > provides a > recommendation and it is

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread bzs
On October 10, 2018 at 17:58 snasl...@medline.com (Naslund, Steve) wrote: > It only proves that you have seen the card at some point. Useless. > > Steven Naslund > Chicago IL > > >I'm pretty sure the "entire point" of inventing CVV was to prove you > >physically have the card. >

Re: NAT on a Trident/Qumran(/or other?) equipped whitebox?

2018-10-10 Thread Wes Felter
On 10/9/18 10:35 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: Has anyone played around with this? Curious if the BCM (or whatever other chip) can do this, and if not, if any of the box vendors have tried to find a way to get these things to do a bunch of NAT - say some flavour of NAT, line-rate @ 10G. If so,

Re: new(ish) ipv6 transition tech status on CPE

2018-10-10 Thread Brock Tice
On 10/09/2018 06:24 PM, Philip Loenneker wrote: > I have asked several vendors we deal with about the newer technologies > such as 464XLAT, and have had some responses indicating they will > investigate internally, however we have not made much progress yet. One > vendor suggested their device

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Mike Hale
If you're only talking about classified systems, sure. But it didn't sound to me like we were only talking exclusively about those kind of systems. On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:08 AM Naslund, Steve wrote: > > Remember we are talking about classified intelligence systems and large IT >

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:53 PM Naslund, Steve wrote: > Mr Herrin, you are asking us to believe one or all of the following : > > 1. You believe that it is good security policy to NOT > have a default DENY ALL policy in place on firewalls > for DoD and Intelligence systems handling sensitive

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Lee
On 10/10/18, Mike Hale wrote: > To be fair, the idea that your security costs shouldn't outweigh > potential harm really shouldn't be controversial. You don't spend a > billion dollars to protect a million dollars worth of product. The problem with that idea is that it's almost always

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
Remember we are talking about classified intelligence systems and large IT organization infrastructure (Google, Yahoo, Apple) here (in the original Supermicro post). That would be information whose unauthorized disclosure would cause grave or exceptional grave harm (definition of secret and

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Mike Hale
To be fair, the idea that your security costs shouldn't outweigh potential harm really shouldn't be controversial. You don't spend a billion dollars to protect a million dollars worth of product. That's hardly trolling. On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:54 AM Naslund, Steve wrote: > > Mr Herrin, you

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
It only proves that you have seen the card at some point. Useless. Steven Naslund Chicago IL >I'm pretty sure the "entire point" of inventing CVV was to prove you >physically have the card.

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
Mr Herrin, you are asking us to believe one or all of the following : 1. You believe that it is good security policy to NOT have a default DENY ALL policy in place on firewalls for DoD and Intelligence systems handling sensitive data. 2. You managed to convince DoD personnel of that fact and

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:06 PM Naslund, Steve wrote: > Want to tell us what system this is? Yes, I want to give you explicit information about a government system in this public forum and you should encourage me to do so. I thought you said you had some skill in the security field? Regards,

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread bzs
On October 10, 2018 at 15:55 snasl...@medline.com (Naslund, Steve) wrote: > The entire point of the CVV has become useless. Recently my wife was talking > to an airline ticket agent on the phone (American Airlines) and one of the > things they ask for on the phone is the CVV. If you are

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
If there was a waiver issued for your ATO, it would have had to have been issued by a department head or the OSD and approved by the DoD CIO after Director DISA provides a recommendation and it is mandatory that it be posted at https://gtg.csd.disa.mil. Please see this DoD Instruction

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
It is good but has several inherent problems (other than almost no one using it). Your card number is static and so is your pin. If they get compromised, you are done. Changing token/pin resolve the static number problem completely, compromise of a used token has no impact whatsoever.

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Brandon Butterworth
On Wed Oct 10, 2018 at 09:17:37AM -0700, Brian Kantor wrote: > I understand that in some countries the common practice is that the > waiter or clerk brings the card terminal to you or you go to it at the > cashier's desk, and you insert or swipe it, so the card never leaves > your hand. And you

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:25 AM Naslund, Steve wrote: > You are free to disagree all you want with the default deny-all > policy but it is a DoD 5200.28-STD requirement and NSA > Orange Book TCSEC requirement. And yet I got my DoD system ATOed my way earlier this year by demonstrating to the

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
IVR credit card PIN entry is a thing For example - https://www.hdfcbank.com/personal/making-payments/security-measures/ivr-3d-secure On 10/10/18, 9:57 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Naslund, Steve" wrote: True and that should be mandatory but does not solve the telephone agent problem.

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
True and that should be mandatory but does not solve the telephone agent problem. Steven Naslund Chicago IL > I understand that in some countries the common practice is that the > waiter or clerk brings the card terminal to you or you go to it at the > cashier's desk, and you insert or

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This is common in India but then chip and pin has been mandatory for a good few years, as has 2fa (vbv / mastercard secure code) for online transactions. Waiters would earlier ask for people's pins so they could go back and enter it - back when a lot of the POS terminals were connected to POTS

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Brian Kantor
I understand that in some countries the common practice is that the waiter or clerk brings the card terminal to you or you go to it at the cashier's desk, and you insert or swipe it, so the card never leaves your hand. And you have to enter the PIN as well. This seems notably more secure against

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
Sure and with the Exp Date, CVV, and number printed on every card you are open to compromise every time you stay in the hotel or go to a restaurant where you hand someone your card. Worse yet, the only option if you are compromised is to change all your numbers and put the burden on your of

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
Having gone through this I know that it's all on you which is why no one really cares. You have to notice a fraudulent charge (in most cases), you have to dispute it, you have to prove it was not you that made the charge, and if they agree then they change all of your numbers at which point

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
The entire point of the CVV has become useless. Recently my wife was talking to an airline ticket agent on the phone (American Airlines) and one of the things they ask for on the phone is the CVV. If you are going to read that all out over the phone with all the other data you are completely

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Alain Hebert
    Well, ( I'm sorry but I cannot resist )     Seriously mate, trolling this list using "deny-all is bad m'kay" is not a good idea. - Alain Hebertaheb...@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel:

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Alain Hebert
    Well,     Once you get the Expiry Date (which is the most prevalent data that is not encoded with the CHD)     CVV is only 3 digits, we saw ppl using parallelizing tactics to find the correct sequence using acquirers around the world.     With the delays in the reporting pipeline, they

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
You are free to disagree all you want with the default deny-all policy but it is a DoD 5200.28-STD requirement and NSA Orange Book TCSEC requirement. It is baked into all approved secure operating systems including SELINUX so it is really not open for debate if you have meet these

RE: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
I agree 100% and also have noticed that severe weather systems tend to more severe in rural areas due to either open spaces (the plains) or trees (forested areas) doing more damage. I can tell you from living the in Midwest that the storms in Iowa and Nebraska are way worse than the ones that

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:22 AM Naslund, Steve wrote: > Allowing an internal server with sensitive data out to "any" is > a serious mistake and so basic that I would fire that contractor > immediately (or better yet impose huge monetary penalties. > As long as your security policy is defaulted

RE: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
I am wondering if this seems common to most of you on here. In my area it seems that all cellular sites have backup generators and battery backup. Seems like the biggest issues we see are devices remote from the central offices that lose power and cause disruptions, like RSTs and SLCs.

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread David Hubbard
They actually profit from fraud; and my theory is that that's why issuers have mostly ceased allowing consumers to generate one time use card numbers via portal or app, even though they claim it's simply because "you're not responsible for fraud." When a stolen credit card is used, the

Re: new(ish) ipv6 transition tech status on CPE

2018-10-10 Thread Ca By
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 6:50 AM Philip Loenneker < philip.loenne...@tasmanet.com.au> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > > > This article is now 11 months old, but may be of interest to you: > > https://blog.apnic.net/2017/11/09/ce-vendors-share-thoughts-ipv6-support/ > > > > Some quotes: > >- The major

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
Yet this data gets compromised again and again, and I know for a fact that the CVV was compromised in at least four cases I personally am aware of. As long as the processors are getting the money, do you really think they are going to kick out someone like Macy's or Home Depot? After all, it

DHS: Report on Alerting Tactics

2018-10-10 Thread Sean Donelan
Communication service providers play a critical role, but too often view public alerting as "someone else's job." https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/1051_IAS_Report-on-Alerting-Tactics_180807-508.pdf Report on Alerting Tactics August 7, 2018 However, there was not consensus

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Brian Kantor
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 02:21:40PM +, Naslund, Steve wrote: > For example, with tokenization there is no reason at all for any > retailer to be storing your credit card data (card number, CVV, exp > date) at all (let alone unencrypted) but it keeps happening over > and over. It's been a while

RE: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Naslund, Steve
Allowing an internal server with sensitive data out to "any" is a serious mistake and so basic that I would fire that contractor immediately (or better yet impose huge monetary penalties. As long as your security policy is defaulted to "deny all" outbound that should not be difficult to

Re: Spectrum residential IPv6 rDNS - thank you !

2018-10-10 Thread Chris
Hi, On 9/10/2018 11:37 PM, endre.szabo@nanog-list-kitfvhs.redir.email wrote: I wonder how they generate these rDNS PTR records? I was always curious, hope someone knows. I do it for our various IPv6 (and IPv4) allocations by using PowerDNS with a remote backend. If there is no existing PTR

RE: new(ish) ipv6 transition tech status on CPE

2018-10-10 Thread Philip Loenneker
Hi Tom, This article is now 11 months old, but may be of interest to you: https://blog.apnic.net/2017/11/09/ce-vendors-share-thoughts-ipv6-support/ Some quotes: * The major issue is the lack of support provided by CE vendors for both older (DS-Lite, lw4o6), and newer (464XLAT, MAP T/E)

Re: Spectrum residential IPv6 rDNS - thank you !

2018-10-10 Thread endre.szabo
Hey there, On 10/10/18 10:09 AM, Marco Davids via NANOG wrote: Op 10-10-18 om 00:42 schreef Brandon Applegate: I’m guessing synthesized.  There are a couple of dns servers out there that can do this.  An interesting one I just found: https://all-knowing-dns.zekjur.net Or, if you prefer

Re: Spectrum residential IPv6 rDNS - thank you !

2018-10-10 Thread Marco Davids via NANOG
Op 10-10-18 om 00:42 schreef Brandon Applegate: I’m guessing synthesized. There are a couple of dns servers out there that can do this. An interesting one I just found: https://all-knowing-dns.zekjur.net Or, if you prefer DNSSEC capable alternatives, try:

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Saku Ytti
Hey, > Important distinction; You fire any contractor who does it *repeatedly* after > communicating the requirements for securing your data. > > Zero-tolerance for genuine mistakes (we all make them) just leads to high > contractor turnaround and no conceivable security improvement; A a

Re: new(ish) ipv6 transition tech status on CPE

2018-10-10 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG
You may use this document, which passed already the last-call and is in the AD/IESG review: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-v6ops-transition-ipv4aas/ My co-authors may help you to get those products … I’ve been using myself OpenWRT for such deployments. Regards, Jordi