🚀 go-pugleaf

Well said.

"Michael Scheidell" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "Lawrence Baldwin" <baldwinlSPAMMENOT@mynetwatchman.com> wrote in message
> news:3A6296A5.2EA4B529@mynetwatchman.com...
> > Not to be a pessimist, but my biggest realization regarding network
> > security is that
> >
> > "SECURE" is not a state of being, it is a VERB describing the *continual
> > process* of reviewing, researching,
> > learning of matters of security.
>
> I agree.
>
> as in 'security is a process' not a product.
> With so many new ways to hack into a system, not to mention the odd
'woops,
> I forgot to apply that 15 month old patch to MS II2 and now the Russians
> have bill's source code'.
>
> Basically, the only way to make sure, 100% that someone can't break into
> your system is to use a little known hardware product, found at home
depot,
> and purchased for $4.95 (yep, less then $5 us)
>
> Its a pair of wire cutters.
>
> Other than that, it is important to be notified when you are being hacked,
> and important that you report it to the ISP.
>
> Important, because that server is either a victim (already been hacked) or
> the villain.
> Either case, the ISP in question had better take actions or they could
find
> themselves in the receiving end of an FBI investigation (BellSouth, take
> note:  you are really down there on the list of ISP's who take hackers and
> security seriously, with 15% of the Cayman routers you install, open to
the
> outside world with no passwords!)
>
> It isn't 6 hours that goes by that I don't have some luser on a BellSouth
> dsl line scanning for either the netbus Trojan, or the sunrpc buffer
> overflow.
>
> Stopped the attack? yep, my firewall stopped it from attacking here, but
if
> I get notified, and let BellSouth know about it and they actually did
> something about it, then the infection would spread slower.
>
> (still need the$4.95 hardware security device to stop it)
>
> Bottom line, 15 to 20% of the dsl and cable modem connected computers are
> infected with Trojans, sub seven, netbus or something similar.
>
> Just waiting to launch additional attacks.
> Stop the attack, identify the attacker (in real time) and complain.
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