Secure Coding

tutorials-2

hi all. i have sent before a message about this subject but i didnt really had real replies that helped me. i am searching of tutorials of programming (delphi, linux, perl, python, c#, java ......) i have search in google, altavista, westciv, whatis, w3school,... So if anyone now how to get pdf...

Windows 2000 Server logs

Hi All, Basically i want to monitor all the activities of my administrators. Is there any way I can find out all the activities on a Windows 2000 Server eg:- success / failure logs ,which users had logged on to a server , user creation time ,service stopped at what time, what scripts have been...

IT Security

Hi all, Thanks to all those who answered to my question"FTP sites" Can anyone of you let me know about the available products that we can use for our organisations IT security..Also let me know what products are available to find out vulnerabilities in a network. Appreciate your response. Thanks ...

Securing FTP on an Enterprise wide basis

One of the recent questions here in the SeachWindowsSecurity.com ITKnowledge Exchange was stated the poster had blocked email services with a Proxy server so that internal employees could not obtain yahoo, AOL, and other external sources of security threats and the poster wanted further support in...

Bad logon Event type 529

A User ill advisedly switched off Anti-Virus and since then we see a failed logon (Type 4 - Batch)under Logon process Advapi every 15 minutes in his User Id. A search of the Web links this to possible virus infectection (Netdevil 1.2. We have scanned etc but can't track down what is generating the...

Local Admin & passwords

We have recently switched to allowing only Power User rights on notebook computers. We have a set of notebooks we loan out to employees with desktops when they need to travel. Currently those users will login with an account named loaner and use scripts and webmail to access the network. ...

Need guidiance from pros already into the game

Hi, I am a United Stated Marine stationed overseas since 2003, majoring in Information technology with National University. I am still an idiot in the field and thats why i joined this group. To get a glance of what to ecpect in the future. I am asking for your help in guiding me through whatever...

Blocking File Transfers from MSN Messenger

hi is there a way to block file transfers from MSN Messenger? or is there a software without the capability to transfer files but which can enable MSN messaging. thnx

OWA using SelfSSL and Certificate Services removal

Hey there... I am curretly running Exchange 2003 on W2k3 member server. I installed Certificate Services and produced my own certificate and all works well with OWA. I recently found out that SelfSSL is available but not quite as robust, which would probably be good. I removed Cert services and...

Deleted Emails

Hello A user on my network deleted all his emails in the inbox and also emptied the deleted items in MS Outlook 2003. We are using POP3 email accounts. I have a backup of all the emails except for the day this happened. Is there any way to restore the emails?

Blocking Tunneling Applications

Hi; Any suggestions on how I can block hopster(and other similar socks based tunneling applications)from tunnelling out and bypassing the firewall? When hopster contacts its servers it uses different set of IPs, not a single domain, so its kind of hard to block it based on IPs Thank You

module moves on i5

I wanted to check on a possible solution for a problem we have run into with our module moves. Cause of audit requirements we can't have pgmr's in the productions systems. So as a work around I have them creating their code in sourclib on the test partition then I have operations copying it into...

aaa authorization ?

Which of the following authorization commands are valid? (we have to choose 2 correct) A. aaa authentication exec home radius B. aaa accounting exec home radius C. aaa authorization default none D. aaa authorization exec home radius E. aaa authorization network default enable F. aaa authorization...

Secure File Transfer for Mainframe systems

I would like to transfer files from Unix machine to Mainframe system (using Unix machine as client). The transfer process need to be secure (ie. data sent thro network should be encrypted using 128-bit encryption algorithm). I came to understand that SFTP server is not available for Mainframe...

IM Blocking and URL Filtering

We have Pix515E which is gateway to Internet. We also got IWSS Proxy(Trend Micro) along with URL filtering module. Domain users get directed to IWSS proxy (GPO settings) and restrictions about URL filterings can be imposed as per company's policy. Those users who are not on the domain, they can...

LDAP in DMZ

We are using LDAP for Internal environment as an Enterprise directory having lot of application and user specific data. There is requirement to access LDAP from external network also. Bearing that in mind we shall have LDAP Server in DMZ to service external applications. Here we are using Sun...

Unable to send files using Msn messenger

Hi whenever i am trying to send any files using msn messenger, its giving me a error message stating that contact the administrator or contact your isp and filed could not be transferred. Previously i was able to transfer the files with the same msn and it used to work fine. My friend was trying to...

iSeries/AS400 is UnHackable - Think Again!

It just depends on your definition of "hack" I've heard the "There has never been a virus on an AS400" argument all too often. However - the definition of a virus/hack goes something like: "Process or person who alters data when they should not be able to". Do we agree? So... while not being an...

ping from outside

hi, could you please tell me which command in cisco routers prevent them from being ping from outside networks. and also how can i prevent terminals inside a network to ping outside ips(group policies etc??). thanks

Bad spyware infection? Take it to the clinic

Hello, We recently ran our first Windows Security Clinic on SearchWindowsSecurity.com. We presented an administrator's hacking dilemma, and our three Windows security gurus (the "doctors") provided their diagnoses and possible courses of action to address, recover from and prevent security...