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Re: [SLE] Where are logins recorded?
  • From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:29:47 +0200
  • Message-id: <200409071629.47676.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 07 September 2004 16:01, C Hamel wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 September 2004 08:14, Damon Register wrote:
> > Anders Johansson wrote:
> > > Tripwire (or similar) is always useful, but it won't prevent breakins.
> > > Only help you detect them after the fact
> >
> > So are you saying the best one can do is find they have been hacked but
> > prevention is not possible?
> >
> > Damon Register
>
> Prevention is completely possible. I use portsentry for that --'anal'
> mode. Yesterday it even shut down my ISP probing one of my ports ...but the
> connection still works.

PortSentry is a tool for detecting portscans. It's certainly useful, but it's
hardly a cure against all cracks.

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