Re: Chinese Kiddos with Broken Dicts?

2009-05-10 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 22:35 -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote: That seems... unlikely. I have had thousands of unique IPs hit some of my hosts, many to never repeat after a round of attacks. The more plausible route is that they have a botnet of pwned boxes numbering in the hundreds of thousands

Re: Chinese Kiddos with Broken Dicts?

2009-05-10 Thread Lisa Kachold
This is the FIRST thing in setting up any secure server (along with say not running Apache or Mysql as root, etc.) Evidently you have not attended the HackFests, where more than a few of the group were well, able to gain a login on a machine with various tools including Brute Forcing via Muppet,

Re: Chinese Kiddos with Broken Dicts?

2009-05-10 Thread Lisa Kachold
Here's a video using custom dictionaries and netcat: http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/revision3/web/hak5/0511/hak5--0511--netcat-virtualization-wordpress--large.xvid.avi You only see the foolish ones in your logs, these exploits can also use an obfuscated source for a number of each of their

Re: BlenderCAD 05-10-09

2009-05-10 Thread Matthew A Coulliette
Hi Lisa, I appreciate your offer to setup NFS for me, however, I don't really want someone to just do it for me. I need to understand how to set it up and maintain it; and the other issues are more important. I really need someone to come over and help me resolve the remaining IPcop, SME

Re: Ubuntu Jaunty Update Pop-Under

2009-05-10 Thread Ted Gould
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 14:12 -0700, koder wrote: Oh, THE Ted? There is only one ;) Thanks for the link to the bug. Since I am not involved in development and am never sure what constitutes a bug. I have never spent much time in there. A feature that I don't care for is not a bug. I have not

RE: Chinese Kiddos with Broken Dicts?

2009-05-10 Thread Bob Elzer
Take a look at sshblack, it works very well for me. http://www.pettingers.org/code/sshblack.html -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Kurt Granroth Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 10:35

Re: BlenderCAD 05-10-09

2009-05-10 Thread Lisa Kachold
1) Today was MOTHERS DAY. We geeky types forget the social requirements and have unrealistic expectations of everyone, even in the PLUG. 2) It is very hard for people in this economy. They can't get to everything, so they are very picky, attending a RHEL RHCE study group, or a special concert

Re: Free Webhost

2009-05-10 Thread Ed
Would anyone like to start a state initiative that limits our ISPs to managing only the bandwidth of their service as provided to users (enforcing Network Neutrality), require that all customers must be provided only static IP addresses, and full port ranges* - with rare technical temporary

Re: BlenderCAD 05-10-09

2009-05-10 Thread Stephen
As it is mothers day i was not able to go to the workshop.. On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: 1) Today was MOTHERS DAY. We geeky types forget the social requirements and have unrealistic expectations of everyone, even in the PLUG. 2) It is very

Re: Free Webhost

2009-05-10 Thread dorian . monroe
Nice thought, but really, I don't think this is even viable. I'm sure the hackers would be all for that though. Oh goody! Now 95% of the people using cox are unprotected from everything! And the isp's responsibility would be limited to their modem (cpe). Can't get to your email? Yeah, we

Re: Free Webhost

2009-05-10 Thread Lisa Kachold
Never fear, we are on the precipice of Nationwide Wifi: http://www.fastcompany.com/news/2008/11/4-cheap-nationwide-wifi.html http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007921.html Why mandate what is already available in competition? I.E. Any free company can now provide competition; they just

Re: Free Webhost

2009-05-10 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 17:13 -0700, Ed wrote: Would anyone like to start a state initiative that limits our ISPs to managing only the bandwidth of their service as provided to users (enforcing Network Neutrality), require that all customers must be provided only static IP addresses, and full

Your modest proposaal; was: Re: Free Webhost

2009-05-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 10 May 2009, Ed wrote: Would anyone like to start a state initiative that limits our ISPs to managing only the bandwidth of their service as provided to users (enforcing Network Neutrality), require that all customers must be provided only static IP addresses, and full port ranges* -