<nettime> all your logfiles are belong to us digest [zagorac, horvath]

["nettime's_star_chamber" <nettime@bbs.thing.net>]

Re: <nettime> re: the logfile conspiracy
     Mladen Zagorac <mladen@kud-fp.si>
     John Horvath <jhorv@helka.iif.hu>

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:03:55 +0200
From: Mladen Zagorac <mladen@kud-fp.si>
Subject: Re: <nettime> re: the logfile conspiracy

hi,

if you are interested in internet security visit Gibson Research Center 
(http://www.grc.com). the whole page is great and full of usefull info, but 
especially interesting are these links:
http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
http://grc.com/dos/winxp.htm

rgds,

Mladen

>   second, i wish there was some resource for understanding
>   IP spoofing and whatnot for the layperson. if anyone knows
>   of such info, please forward. i use 'whois' engines to find
>   the domain names of IP addresses in my logs that do not
>   translate, and sometimes come from unusual places. one
>   that i never can figure out is when it is the IANA address
>   or something such. it says it is part of the old arpanet
>   or something like it network. i forget at the moment. but
>   basically, there are many 'invisible' addresses that in
>   my opinion, are hidden by this outdated IP, or unmapped,
>   or 'private' IP. don't know who is visiting, those domains
>   that have access to that part of the IP numerology.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:44:00 +0200
From: John Horvath <jhorv@helka.iif.hu>
Subject: Re: <nettime> re: the logfile conspiracy

Brian,

For more info on network security (firewalls, spyware, etc) check out
Steve Gibson's site at grc.com (that's right, no www in front).
Excellent free utilities that are usually under 50K, lots of information
written in an easy-to-understand style, and ways of testing your system
and/or connection to see how secure it really is. His stuff is not only
useful against attacks by those who fashionably consider themselves
"hackers", but also against the backdoor surprises that a lot of
commercial software (including some shareware and freeware) have which
people often don't know about (i.e., spyware).

John

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

#  distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
#  <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
#  collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
#  more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body
#  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net