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Howdy.  The next OSU Network Security meeting will be this Wednesday,
December 20th from 4-6 PM in Baker Systems Engineering room 210E on
the Ohio State main campus.

I had originally planned on discussing OSU's plans for creating a
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), but I'm going to hold off on
that till we've had a chance to put a plan together and discuss it
with various parties around campus first.

Instead I'd like to talk about some recent security problems at Ohio
State and about our current and planned logging activities.

We've been investigating a series of breakins all over campus.  I'll
discuss how we found out about this, how people investigated the
breakins, what they found, and we'll also look at some of the tools
that the crackers used to breakin.  We've also got a log of some of
their telnet and ftp sessions which are interesting to look through.

Log files of various sorts have played an important role in
investigating these breakins.  We have some fairly aggressive plans
for logging which we've started to put into place.  I'll talk a bit
about what we are doing now and about our future plans.

In January, Moira West from the Computer Emergency Response Team
(CERT) in Pittsburgh will be here to talk about recent trends in
Internet breakins.  I heard her talk at the Network Security '95
conference in Washington a few weeks ago - it was great.  That meeting
will be on January 24th, in 120 BSE from 4-6 PM.

The Network Security Group meetings are usually held on the fourth
Wednesday of each month from 4-6 PM on the Ohio State University main
campus in Columbus (usually in Baker Systems 120).  The goal of our
meetings is to share information about computer security tools,
practices and problems.  Anyone and everyone are invited to attend.

We also have mailing lists for people who are interested in discussing
network security issues, or who just want announcements about meetings
and security bulletins.  Send mail to
netwog-security-request@lists.net.ohio-state.edu for more information.

--- Steve