[oclug] Today's top ten list

Michael P. Soulier msoulier at storm.ca
Thu Oct 3 16:34:03 EDT 2002


    I've been told by many that sendmail is insecure, and that qmail is the
best replacement. I can't vouch for it just yet myself.

    Mike

On 03/10/02 Greg Franks did speaketh:

> Courtesy of the FBI no less...
> 
> http://www.sans.org/top20
> 
> [executive summary:  Top ten ways people break into Windoze/Unix
> systems.  IIS/Exploder (quelle surprise).  Apache/Sendmail (!)...
> Keep your systems up to date, firewall, yadda, yadda, yadda...]
> 
> -- 
>    __@               Greg Franks              <|       _~@ __O 
>  _`\<,_         Ottawa, Ontario, Canada        |O\   -^\<;^\<, 
> (*)/ (*)                                       (*)--(*)%---/(*)
>           "Where do you want to go today?"   Outside.  
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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at storm.ca>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08
"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort."  -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix
HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html
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