Educause Security Discussion mailing list archives

Re: SECURITY Digest - 11 Jun 2004 to 13 Jun 2004 (#2004-120)


From: Melissa Guenther <mguenther () COX NET>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 06:39:13 -0700

Thanks to everyone that responded for the virtual education .    It is so
true - we never stop learning!

Melissa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hilger" <whilger () andromeda rutgers edu>
To: "'The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv'"
<SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Cc: "'Melissa Guenther'" <mguenther () COX NET>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 6:24 AM
Subject: RE: SECURITY Digest - 11 Jun 2004 to 13 Jun 2004 (#2004-120)


Melissa,

I already do subscribe using the digest format.
(I left it attached to the bottom of this return mail, so you can see what
it looks like here. )

There are (at least) two ways to do this:

1:  Go to the Educause website and go to the list management / security list
management page:
http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=security&A=1

2: If you want to do it "oldschool" - and manually set all your options,
send an email to:
  listserv () listserv educause edu   Make sure that EVERYTHING is blank - no
subject, no signature -
only put the words:  " info reflist "       [no quotes]
in the body of the message.   You will get a return email with all of the
valid commands for this listserv machine.   You can then
send similar emails with commands from the reference card.
( again, no subject, no signature, - just the command in thre message body).

Have a great day!
___________________________________________
William Hilger,
Unit Computing Specialist,
Rutgers University Law Library, Newark
(973) 353-1290 / (973) 353-3156
whilger () rutgers edu



-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On
Behalf Of Automatic digest processor
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 12:00 AM
To: Recipients of SECURITY digests
Subject: SECURITY Digest - 11 Jun 2004 to 13 Jun 2004 (#2004-120)

There are 2 messages totalling 118 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. Message Delivery Options
 2. Correction: XP SP2 ports open to local subnet

**********
Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion
Group discussion list can be
found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.

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

Date:    Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:50:33 -0700
From:    Melissa Guenther <mguenther () COX NET>
Subject: Message Delivery Options

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0004_01C4515E.296D6F70
Content-Type: text/plain;
       charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I have recently been added to a listserve and have an option to control =
multiple messages from the group on a daily basis.  Summarized:

Message Delivery options -- some ideas: =20

 a.. the usual way people get messages is by "Individual emails" -- one =
E-mail comes to your address for each message posted to this group.=20
  =20
 b.. if you'd rather receive only one E-mail per day, then select =
"Daily Digest".=20
  =20
 c.. if you'd rather read the messages on the Web, we recommend =
selecting "Only special announcements"=20

Does EDCAUSE offer this as an option also?

Thanks=20
Melissa

**********
Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion
Group discussion list can be
found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
------=_NextPart_000_0004_01C4515E.296D6F70
Content-Type: text/html;
       charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>
<P>I have recently been added to a listserve and have an option to =
control=20
multiple messages from the group on a daily basis.&nbsp; Summarized:</P>
<P>Message Delivery options -- some ideas:&nbsp; </P>
<UL>
 <LI>the usual way people get messages is by "Individual emails" -- one =
E-mail=20
 comes to your address for each message posted to this group. =
<BR>&nbsp;=20
 <LI>if you'd rather receive only one E-mail per day, then select =
"Daily=20
 Digest". <BR>&nbsp;=20
 <LI>if you'd rather read the messages on the Web, we recommend =
selecting "Only=20
 special announcements" <BR></LI></UL>
<DIV>Does EDCAUSE offer this as an option also?</DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks </DIV>
<DIV>Melissa</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>
**********
Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion
Group discussion list can be
found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.

------=_NextPart_000_0004_01C4515E.296D6F70--

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

Date:    Sun, 13 Jun 2004 22:01:50 -0400
From:    Jeff Bollinger <jeff01 () EMAIL UNC EDU>
Subject: Re: Correction: XP SP2 ports open to local subnet

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, John Kristoff wrote:

If a XP SP2 host becomes compromised, will the default firewall config
also block packets on egress from the compromised host to hosts not on
the local subnet or are the filters only applied on ingress to itself?

John

No.  The XP SP2 Firewall is stateful, so as long as the connection (SYN or
otherwise) originates from the compromised host, the connection should
remain open.  From
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0104.mspx

"Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) includes the new Windows Firewall,
previously known as the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF). Windows
Firewall is a stateful firewall that drops all unsolicited incoming
traffic that does not correspond to either traffic sent in response to a
request of the computer (solicited traffic) or unsolicited traffic that
has been specified as allowed (excepted traffic). Windows Firewall
provides a level of protection from malicious users and programs that rely
on unsolicited incoming traffic to attack computers."

It doesn't really mention anything subnet specific, but for proper
functionality for most programs that the user intends to run, it would
likely allow all outbound connections.

Jeff
--
Jeff Bollinger, CISSP
University of North Carolina
IT Security Analyst
105 Abernethy Hall
mailto: jeff@unc dot edu

**********
Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion
Group discussion list can be
found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.

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

End of SECURITY Digest - 11 Jun 2004 to 13 Jun 2004 (#2004-120)
***************************************************************

**********
Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at 
http://www.educause.edu/cg/.

Current thread: