-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:54:38 PM (GMT -05:00) RE: "Dial-Up, TB and Firewalls"
Greetings Carsten, On Saturday, September 13, 2003, 3:45:58 PM, you wrote: >> I now think this was >> Carsten's point when he mentioned dial-up. I thought he meant the way >> of connection. Carsten> No, it wasn't. For me security is binary. Either a system is secure Carsten> to a given scenario or it is not. It should not matter if one system Carsten> is more likely to get �attacked� than the other. As with a house, if you leave the back door open it's only a matter of time before someone gains entry. It takes no more than an IP block scan to see who is on-line on any ISP's network and from there a simple port scan and if one is found to determine if it's open and exploitable. It makes no difference whether you are on dialup, cable or DSL. The only thing that matters is how long you are on-line, you have a port open that can be accessed through and that you are on-line long enough for the other end to do their deed. Anyway ... Takes a matter of seconds to install a dropper on any system. Come back on-line with the same IP or stay on-line long enough and the hacker is on your dime, time and system. - -- Regards, DG Raftery Sr. Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 9.0b1 Comment: KeyID: 0xECFE3F95 Comment: Fingerprint: 8ABE 6728 1CB9 E231 B2C8 C29D BC22 D3D1 ECFE 3F95 iQA+AwUBP2Ow87wi09Hs/j+VEQJfXwCY3Dr2tSOSxiTkxxskxJBiM6CqogCgsj9J T1Bwvn3yyoT1Wn6cSUuidDM= =xmNg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
