Subject: RE: Was I hacked?: webmin note
From: Michael A. Peters (Moonglue@141.com )
Date: Fri Aug 18 2000 - 21:53:58 MDT
>Well, now for the real advice... it's a GOOD policy to always run some
>filtering/firewalling software in your machines even if they're behind a
>firewall. Why? as proven in BugTraq countless times you can fool the
>firewall if it's not properly secured and sometimes a brute force attack
>will suffice (FW-1 is a good example).
Another reason is that a lot of attacks come from behind the
firewall- someone inside the company who is not suppose to have
access to something...
Sales of intellectual information is a hot market, always run a
firewall if you can but assume that there isn't one, because for some
crackers getting behind the firewall is as easy as booting their
machine at their desk.
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Michael A. Peters-- http://24.5.29.77/Linux_Pages/
http://www.omnilinux.com/
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