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Re: Secure OWA
From: "Brian Eaton" <eaton.lists () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:14:40 -0400
On 8/30/06, Mark Senior <senatorfrog () gmail com> wrote:
I think a possibly better approach, although it doesn't seem like you could implement it quite as simply as account lockouts, would be to lock out, not the account, but the originating IP address, for a duration.
Ever since I read this thread (http://vegan.net/lb/archive/08-2004/0118.html) on one of the load-balancer discussion lists I've been skeptical of using IP addresses for much of anything. My guess is that if you do things like ban IPs automatically you run the risk of accidentally locking out thousands of legit users as well as the one who is misbehaving. A few of the more interesting comments in the thread: "...myriad of enterprise networks that load-balance outbound client connections across proxy servers which are connected to different ISPs, with totally different source IP..." "...The AOL client does a split tunnel type thing, where the HTTP gets tunneled through the UDP conversation to AOL's network and back out the proxies to the Internet, but the HTTPS (and other stuff) goes directly from client to server..." Regards, Brian _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Re: Secure OWA Dude VanWinkle (Aug 26)
- Re: Secure OWA Adriel Desautels (Aug 26)
- Re: Secure OWA Dude VanWinkle (Aug 26)
- Re: Secure OWA Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 26)
- Re: Secure OWA Dude VanWinkle (Aug 26)
- Re: Secure OWA Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (Aug 30)
- Re: Secure OWA Bardus Populus (Aug 30)
- Re: Secure OWA Mark Senior (Aug 30)
- Re: Secure OWA Brian Eaton (Aug 30)
- Re: Secure OWA Lohan Spies (Aug 31)