RE: Office 2003 Running Under T/Services 2008 R2

2012-05-24 Thread Robert Jackson
Yep, already tried this and it didn't work. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Wednesday 23 May 2012 14:00 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: r...@walkermartyn.co.uk - RE: Office 2003 Running Under T/Services 2008 R2 - Found word(s) list error remove list in the Text body

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Ziots, Edward
Dump hashes of the passwords/passphrases, run then through a rainbow table, game is still over. Either that or don't even crack the hash, just pass the hash and game is still over. Nice tool gsecdump gets a lot, and there are other tools that will allow you to pass the hash. Z Edward

RE: Favorite tools for automating XSS testing

2012-05-24 Thread Ziots, Edward
These aren't exactly Automated, as with any XSS testing it's a bit more manual than automated IMHO. Especially if you want to truly show the evilness of what XSS vulnerabilities can do. Backtrack Penetration Platform ( W3AF), other tools Burp-Suite Pro (One of my favorites) WebScarab

Re: Fun with Microsoft

2012-05-24 Thread ANDREW F OFALT
first you would have the user do a gpupdate/force of course you would have to restart 3 times to get the policy applied if this does not work, have the user email you a picture of the pbj sandwich to make sure that is is what they said. if possible, send a portion of the pbj sandwich so we can

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread David Lum
I have no idea what you said. I'm guessing you're saying a 26-character passphrase is no better than a 12-character password? From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Passphrases vs. password Dump hashes of the

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Ziots, Edward
Might be a little better but honestly, if I can dump your hashes its only a matter of time before they are cracked using rainbow tables. Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org From: David Lum

Re: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Good passwords and good password management is still key, because most attacks against passwords don't involve the hashes. Of course, it is vital that other attack vectors, such as SQL injection and XSS are mitigated against, or the hashes will come into play, and this will undermine strong

RE: Favorite tools for automating XSS testing

2012-05-24 Thread Ziots, Edward
NP glad to share you reminded me to read XSS Attacks by Syngress press over the weekend. ( I know sic, but gotta keep ahead of stuff J) Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org From: Andrew S. Baker

SSL-VPN issues since May Patch Tuesday?

2012-05-24 Thread Richard McClary
Greetings! We have four work from home users who connect to our applications through an SSL-VPN. After well over a year of successful operation, things have broken the past couple of weeks... The devices are all Juniper SA- series SSL-VPN, and users load and run the Network Connect resource.

OT: PowerBuilder ODBC connection to SQL with alternate credentials

2012-05-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Got a call from a developer. Seems there is an old PowerBuilder 8.5.1 application that currently uses the users current credentials for the ODBC connection to a back end SQL server. The question to me was, can they have it use alternate credentials. So the user would logon to Windows, the app

RE: SSL-VPN issues since May Patch Tuesday?

2012-05-24 Thread Webster
A very large enterprise customer I am doing some work for also has Juniper SSL-VPN stuff. something has happened recently to make using the VPN stuff worthless. They now have me going thru some web SSL-VPN software and I can actually work now. They said something has caused their Juniper

RE: PowerBuilder ODBC connection to SQL with alternate credentials

2012-05-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yes. See here for samples: http://www.connectionstrings.com/sql-server-2008 From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: PowerBuilder ODBC connection to SQL with alternate credentials Got a call from a

Cancel wsus clients downloading updates

2012-05-24 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Will stopping the automatic updates service on a windows xp client stop a download that is already in progress from my wsus server? Latest batch of .net updates are large and killing my wan. I'd like to cancel a few clients who already started downloading updates from wsus.

RE: PowerBuilder ODBC connection to SQL with alternate credentials

2012-05-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Thanks Michael, That is actually where the example I listed below came from. I've also got an example of a PowerBuilder 9 app that shows how to do it. So I can't believe that functionality doesn't exist in PowerBuilder 8.5.1. My guess is that the code is wrong, and I've asked for the developer

RE: yet another massive patching failure

2012-05-24 Thread Chinnery, Paul
I had it happen to my home computer. I turned off AU, turned it back on, installed the patches and rebooted. Fixed the issue. I did not have the problem with my servers at work. From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:06 AM To: NT System Admin

Re: yet another massive patching failure

2012-05-24 Thread Andrew S. Baker
In general, I find InfoWorld to be in the sensationalism game. I have, over time, seen a lot of .NET patching funkiness, but I haven't seen what is being described in this article. As for the multiple version question, it doesn't seem like the author understands how .NET is laid out. (This isn't

Re: Cancel wsus clients downloading updates

2012-05-24 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Where is the WSUS server relative to the clients in question? * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:10 AM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: Will stopping the automatic

RE: Cancel wsus clients downloading updates

2012-05-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
I don't think so - the BITS service is the one downloading the updates. You can use bitsadmin.exe to see what's in the queue and kill them (from the client side) Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Thursday, 24 May

Re: Cancel wsus clients downloading updates

2012-05-24 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:10 AM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: Will stopping the automatic updates service on a windows xp client stop a download that is already in progress from my wsus server? Latest batch of .net updates are large and killing my wan. I'd like

RE: Cancel wsus clients downloading updates

2012-05-24 Thread David Mazzaccaro
WSUS server is at my main site, I have remote sites w/ clients (XP Win7) that pull from it over my WAN. As you can see from the graph, it was a rough morning... this is my T1 circuit at my main site. All my remote sites also come back here on their own T1 lines. From: Andrew S.

RE: Cancel wsus clients downloading updates

2012-05-24 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Thx! I'll check that out. It seems that stopping the AU services on the clients didn't stop the downloads in process. They did finally finish, but slowed everything to a crawl while they were downloading. -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent:

RE: SSL-VPN issues since May Patch Tuesday?

2012-05-24 Thread Ziots, Edward
Code upgrade possibly? If the web SSL VPN software is Java based, I would look at that also, Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:00

Powershell Eventlog Reporting

2012-05-24 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I need to extract several Security Group Management related events from the security log. Using Get-EventLog leaves me with the Message and ReplacementStrings properties as strings. So filtering on an OU and finally developing a non-admin friendly report that shows just a username and group

Re: yet another massive patching failure

2012-05-24 Thread Steven Peck
We patched ~1500 servers and ~5000 desktops without issue. While there are the occasional glitches int he patching cycle they have been far and few between in the last few years and this sort of sensationalistic crap serves no IT professionals interest except fear mongering and distortion. On

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Crawford, Scott
I've not seen rainbow tables that work for passwords longer than 14 characters, and even that excludes a large chunk of the ASCII set. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Passphrases vs. password Might be

RE: Cancel wsus clients downloading updates

2012-05-24 Thread Guyer, Don
IIRC, at a past employer, we pushed a GPO (or registry change) to either kill BITS altogether or only allow it at certain times. Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa  19073

RE: Powershell Eventlog Reporting

2012-05-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
I don't understand what you are asking? -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Powershell Eventlog Reporting I need to extract several Security Group Management related events

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Mathew Shember
Indeed they are. They also reduce your password reset requests as people will write them down. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Passphrases vs. password I have no idea what you said. I'm guessing you're

RE: Powershell Eventlog Reporting

2012-05-24 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Sorry Michael, The Message is a string, which makes for large capturing regex's, total pain... I had hoped the Member|Account name was accessible from with the Message property... An example output: Get-WinEvent Security |?{ $_.Id -eq 4729 } |fl TimeCreated : 5/24/2012 9:40:16 AM ProviderName

RE: Sharepoint for Help Desk Use

2012-05-24 Thread Bob Fronk
Ok.. I see that point. And it is 100% correct. SharePoint takes an entirely different set of skills to administer and develop. It isn't something you can just throw on a server and have a successful implementation. BF -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
I've got a rainbow table set for all keyboard characters (US-standard keyboard). Sure, that leaves out a lot of ALT+whatevers, but getting a user to use those is unlikely. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Powershell Eventlog Reporting

2012-05-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
Oh. No. Not from there. In the raw event log entry (which you can get from WMI), you'll see InsertionStrings, ReplacementStrings, and the Message. You can SOMETIMES get what you want form ReplacementStrings. But more often than not you will still be looking at painful regex's or just flat out

Re: Recommended hardened ethernet switch?

2012-05-24 Thread Matthew W. Ross
So, I got no actual recommendations on harsh-temperature switches... So here's a last-ditch request: Is there any brand anybody has used in the past? I guess the silence is deafening. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Matthew W. Ross

Re: Recommended hardened ethernet switch?

2012-05-24 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
rugged is probably the keyword you are most interested in here; along with outdoor. Have you Google'd for something along the lines of: https://www.google.com/search?q=rugged+outdoor+network+switch ? -- Espi On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Matthew W. Ross

Re: Recommended hardened ethernet switch?

2012-05-24 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Hardened, Extreme Temperature, High Temperature, Ruggedized, Harsh Environment... to name a few. And I've found some. They're just all in the $3k+ range. At that cost, I can use a cheap HP switch and replace it if/when it fails. I'll keep looking. Thanks. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District

RE: Microsoft Lync 2010

2012-05-24 Thread Tobie Fysh
We installed using a computer startup script. The MSI can be extracted from the EXE and used to deploy but you must ensure that you have all the pre-reqs yourself (which is what the EXE does). I agree, it is a bit fiddly Regards Tobie sip:tobie.f...@freebridge.org.uk From: Troy Adkins

RE: Microsoft Lync 2010

2012-05-24 Thread Troy Adkins
Yes, the error msg received after GPO instalss is ocsetupdir not found. Troy Adkins Network Administrator Virginia House of Delegates General Assembly Bldg. Room 824 PH: 804.698.1567 Fax: 804.771.7917 tadk...@house.virginia.govmailto:tadk...@house.virginia.gov

RE: PowerBuilder ODBC connection to SQL with alternate credentials

2012-05-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Update, the developer just informed me that this is not PowerBuilder, but ClientBuilder. I've never heard of this before. Not even sure they are around. This is the only thing online that I've been able to find that references it:

I do appreciate the Full-disclosure list

2012-05-24 Thread Kurt Buff
Hacking VMs in an ESXi 5 -based cloud http://www.insinuator.net/2012/05/vmdk-has-left-the-building/ Looks like there's more work to be done, but also looks do-able... Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Powershell Eventlog Reporting

2012-05-24 Thread Rubens Almeida
Joseph, here's a very old and crude code I wrote when I was starting with PowerShell and needed to find very specific events: # Start of script $FinalArray = @() [string]$ServerName = $Args[0] $BackInTime = [System.Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDMTFDateTime((Get-Date).AddHours(-48))

Re: Recommended hardened ethernet switch?

2012-05-24 Thread Kurt Buff
What switches are you used to using, and who do you buy from? My first thought would be to call HP (or whomever you use) and describe your use case, and ask for recommendations. Kurt On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: So, I got no actual

Re: I do appreciate the Full-disclosure list

2012-05-24 Thread Rankin, James R
If you can stand the noise, there are often a few nuggets of goodness on FD. There are a lot of other nuggets on there too though --Original Message-- From: Kurt Buff To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: I do appreciate the Full-disclosure list Sent: 24 May

Re: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Kurt Buff
To infinity, and beyond! On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: For longer than 14 characters? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Passphrases vs.

RE: PowerBuilder ODBC connection to SQL with alternate credentials

2012-05-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
Wow, that's a blast from the past. I haven't used that since around 1998/99. It's now part of Progress Software and called Z/Presentation. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerBuilder ODBC

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
No, sorry. I should've clarified that. But they are available for purchase (or you can generate them yourself - that's not as ridiculously expensive in compute-time as it was even 5 years ago). From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 2:17 PM To: NT

Re: Recommended hardened ethernet switch?

2012-05-24 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
To keep your searching simple, I would lean more toward rugged, which typically relates to physical durability. Hardened is usually a term related to security-related accessibility. -- Espi On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote: Hardened, Extreme

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Crawford, Scott
Any idea how to calculate that? Even assuming we just use a-z,A-Z, and 0-9, we have 62 characters, so is a 15 char rainbow table 62 times the size of a 14 char one? I'd assume there's some relationship similar to that. Even if it's just double size for each character you add, the tables are

Re: I do appreciate the Full-disclosure list

2012-05-24 Thread Kurt Buff
The delete key is your friend on most lists, though after a while on all of them, if you pay attention, you'll find out who's worth the read. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: If you can stand the noise, there are often a few nuggets of goodness on

RE: PowerBuilder ODBC connection to SQL with alternate credentials

2012-05-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Any interest in looking at some of the code? Thanks Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com The Guardian Life

RE: PowerBuilder ODBC connection to SQL with alternate credentials

2012-05-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
Uh…. Sure, WTH. No promises. When I last used it, it was on Sybase SQL 4.1 (just before it became Microsoft SQL). From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerBuilder ODBC connection to SQL with

RE: I do appreciate the Full-disclosure list

2012-05-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
+1 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I do appreciate the Full-disclosure list The delete key is your friend on most lists, though after a while on all of them, if you pay

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
There used to be a really good article on rainbow tables available via ophcrack; but now that ophcrack is on sourceforge it doesn't seem to be available anymore. It isn't linear, but yes it's still O(n), where n is the number of characters included in the tables. The tables converge somewhat

RE: Is there a way...

2012-05-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
BAT/CMD only? Or is PowerShell an option? From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Is there a way... In batch to take this output: --- W32i DLL ENU11.2.202.235 shp flash32_11_2_202_235.ocx Reply from 4.2.2.3:

RE: Is there a way...

2012-05-24 Thread Crawford, Scott
Sure snip Echo 11.2.202.235, 24ms textfile.txt snip But, I imagine that's not exactly what you're looking for. What's generating the input? Is it always in a certain form? Whats the goal? Checking ping time on computers with a certain version of flash? From: David Lum

Re: Recommended hardened ethernet switch?

2012-05-24 Thread Matthew W. Ross
I did call HP. They don't sell any switches that can handle operating temperatures below freezing. Looking at the historical data for Ephrata. I don't think the high temperatures are to worry. (I see we hit 115F once.) But we often drop below 32F in the winter. This building, being small and

Re: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Jeff Steward
http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi#Classes See the note on the bottom of the page if you want your mind blown. -Jeff Steward On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote: Any idea how to calculate that? Even assuming we just use a-z,A-Z, and 0-9, we have 62

Re: Recommended hardened ethernet switch?

2012-05-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: Hardened, Extreme Temperature, High Temperature, Ruggedized, Harsh Environment... to name a few. Industrial is another good adjective. And I've found some. They're just all in the $3k+ range. Yah... this

Re: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Any idea how to calculate that?  Even assuming we just use a-z,A-Z, and 0-9, we have 62 characters, so is a 15 char rainbow table 62 times the size of a 14 char one? I’d assume there’s some relationship similar to

Re: Recommended hardened ethernet switch?

2012-05-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: I did call HP. They don't sell any switches that can handle operating temperatures below freezing. So strap a small solid-state heater to the side of the thing, and set it for 35F. The industrial control

Re: Is there a way...

2012-05-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: In batch to take this output: W32i   DLL ENU    11.2.202.235 shp flash32_11_2_202_235.ocx Reply from 4.2.2.3: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=53 And end up with this in a .TXT file? 11.2.202.235 , 24ms Yes. Look into the FOR /F

Re: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Jeff Steward jstew...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi#Classes See the note on the bottom of the page if you want your mind blown. And note that the page is dated July 2009. If we blindly assume for the sake of discussion that computing

RE: Is there a way...

2012-05-24 Thread David Lum
CMD only. Sorry I should have included more info. The commands I am already running are: FILEVER %SystemRoot%\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash*.ocx /A /D b:\wsdata\MAP-WS_Results.txt Echo. b:\wsdata\MAP-WS_Results.txt ping -n 1 4.2.2.3 | find /i reply b:\wsdata\MAP-WS_Results.txt So what you

Re: Recommended hardened ethernet switch?

2012-05-24 Thread Matthew W. Ross
  So strap a small solid-state heater to the side of the thing, and set it for 35F.  The industrial control equipment we get at work these days is often regular commercial equipment with heat and A/C wrapped around it. That is a good idea. How much will the problems cost you? If the

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
I'm not going to say that it has NOT happened, but none of the current generally available software utilizes GPUs. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Passphrases vs. password On

Re: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
http://www.golubev.com/hashgpu.htm -- Espi On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: I'm not going to say that it has NOT happened, but none of the current generally available software utilizes GPUs. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott

Re: Cancel wsus clients downloading updates

2012-05-24 Thread Steven Peck
From memory BITS is supposed to be something you can schedule stuff with. So I did a quick search. May or may not be helpful for future use. http://www.group-policy.com/ref/policy/59/Set_up_a_work_schedule_to_limit_the_maximum_network_bandwidth_used_for_BITS_background_transfers On Thu, May

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
That doesn't appear to generate rainbowtables, nor does it appear to have been updated since 2009. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Passphrases vs. password

Re: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Curses to 2009! -- Espi On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: That doesn’t appear to generate rainbowtables, nor does it appear to have been updated since 2009. ** ** *From:* Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] *Sent:*

Re: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I also wonder if the latest crop of GPU/math coprocessor hardware could be adapted to this purpose. I'm not going to say that it has NOT happened, but none of the current generally available software utilizes

Re: Is there a way...

2012-05-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:47 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: FILEVER %SystemRoot%\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash*.ocx /A /D b:\wsdata\MAP-WS_Results.txt Echo. b:\wsdata\MAP-WS_Results.txt ping -n 1 4.2.2.3 | find /i reply b:\wsdata\MAP-WS_Results.txt You should probabbly wrap

RE: Is there a way...

2012-05-24 Thread Crawford, Scott
Why are you using MAP-WS_Results.txt? Just as a data collection point or do you possibly need more info from it later besides the 4 things you mention? If the only thing you want at the end is your master list in a text file, I would parse the data during each command. Something like this,

Re: Recommended hardened ethernet switch?

2012-05-24 Thread Kurt Buff
I think that might be your best bet - that, or insulate the building and let the switch heat it! Heh. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: I did call HP. They don't sell any switches that can handle operating temperatures below freezing. Looking

RE: Powershell Eventlog Reporting

2012-05-24 Thread Joseph L. Casale
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Re: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Jeff Steward jstew...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi#Classes See the note on the bottom of the page if you want your mind blown.  And note that the page is dated July

SBS 2003 and defrag

2012-05-24 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I'm trying to figure out why SBS 2003 has a constant defrag running - I see defrgntfs.exe in the task list every time I touch this machine, except for short periods after I reboot it, and then it starts right back up again. I've rebooted the box and (as the Administrator) done an analyze on

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
It's not all doom-and-gloom. Someone still needs to *get* the hashes somehow. So they need the ability to dump something from your authentication stores (AD? Proprietary database? LDAP store), which may or may not be in NTLM. If they are able to do that, then you already have significant

Re: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Indeed. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: It's not all doom-and-gloom. Someone still needs to *get* the hashes somehow. So they need the

Re: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Kurt Buff
True enough, to one degree or another. I won't say it's trivial to establish a foothold in a network, but I'd guess it's pretty routine, given how most environments are configured. o- Identify employees using the network o- Entice them to click on a URL with nasty stuff behind it, or send them a

RE: Passphrases vs. password

2012-05-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
Sure - that can be done. But I said a well designed network. Well designed networks have a modicum of control within them - proxy filtering, SMTP filtering, anti-virus/malware scanning, NIPS, and largely no local admin rights. I'm pretty sure that most larger orgs would have at least 4 out of

Re: Recommended hardened ethernet switch?

2012-05-24 Thread Jonathan
I haven't had a chance to respond, and if I missed part of your requirements, I apologize. The way I understand it, you just need a port or two in a remote facility with little to no environmental controls, subject to low temperatures. Omnitron Systems has some equipment in their iConverter