[NTLUG:Discuss] Cheese for your crakcers

Kelly Scroggins kelly at cliffhanger.com
Sat Aug 28 08:46:04 CDT 1999


David,

Be sure to alert the list when your IP Chains talk is going to be
presented.  I want to attend.

Kelly


David Stokes wrote:
> 
> Anyone feeling a little timid after the crakers thread in this group
> may want to get a copy of nmap (search freshmet.net or the like) and do
> their own port scan.  Then use tcp wrappers, ipchains, and/or netfilter
> to tighten up the system BEFORE testing with nmap again.  And turn off
> those sevices you really do not use.
> 
> I really recommend the GTK-ed version of nmap for novice scanners.
> FWIW an out of the box Linux distro scores much higher (harder to break
> into) than many well secured NT 4/2K boxes.
> 
> I'm preparing an ipchains talk for the November meeting.
> 
> ===
> 
> -David Stokes-
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