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Alert
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This is a moderated list in the effort to keep the noise to a minimal and provide quality security information. The Alert will be covering the following topics:
  • Security Product Announcements
  • Updates to Security Products
  • New Vulnerabilities found
  • New Security Frequently Asked Question files.
  • New Intruder Techniques and Awareness

Best of Security
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REASONS FOR INCEPTION
In order to compile the average security administrator it was found that the compiler had to parse a foreboding number of exceptionally noisy and semantically-content-free data sets. This led to exceptionally high load averages and a dramatic increase in core entropy.
Further, the number, names and locations of this data appears to change on an almost daily basis; requiring tedious version control on the part of the mental maintainer. Best-of-Security is at present an un-moderated list. That may sound strange given our stated purpose of massive entropy reduction; but because best often equates with "vital" and the moderator doesn't have an MDA habit it is important that material sent to this list be delivered to its subscribers' in as minimal period of time as is (in)humanly possible.
If you find *any* information from *any* source (including other mailinglists, newsgroups, conference notes, papers, etc) that fits into one of the acceptable categories described at the end of this document then you should *immediately* send it to "[email protected]". Do not try and predict whether or not someone else will send the item in question to the list in the immediate future. Unless your on a time-delayed mail vector such as polled uucp or the item has already appeared on best-of-security, mail the info to the list! Even if it is a widely deployed peice of information such as a CERT advisory the proceeding argument still applies. If the information hasn't appeared on this list yet, then SEND IT. It is far better to run the risk of minor duplication in exchange for having the information out where it is needed than act conservatively about occasional doubling up on content.

Bugtraq
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This list is for *detailed* discussion of UNIX security holes: what they are, how to exploit, and what to do to fix them.
This list is not intended to be about cracking systems or exploiting their vunerabilities. It is about defining, recognizing, and preventing use of security holes and risks.
Please refrain from posting one-line messages or messages that do not contain any substance that can relate to this list`s charter.
Please follow the below guidelines on what kind of information should be posted to the Bugtraq list:
  • Information on Unix related security holes/backdoors (past and present)
  • Exploit programs, scripts or detailed processes about the above
  • Patches, workarounds, fixes
  • Announcements, advisories or warnings
  • Ideas, future plans or current works dealing with Unix security
  • Information material regarding vendor contacts and procedures
  • Individual experiences in dealing with above vendors or security organizations
  • Incident advisories or informational reporting

COAST Security Archive
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Computer Privacy Digest
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The Computer PRIVACY Digest (CPD) (formerly the Telecom Privacy digest) is run by Leonard P. Levine. It is gatewayed to the USENET newsgroup comp.society.privacy. It is a relatively open (i.e., less tightly moderated) forum, and was established to provide a forum for discussion on the effect of technology on privacy. All too often technology is way ahead of the law and society as it presents us with new devices and applications. Technology can enhance and detract from privacy.

Computer Underground Digest
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CuD is available as a Usenet newsgroup: comp.society.cu-digest
Covers many issues of the computer underground.

Cypherpunks
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The cypherpunks list is a forum for discussing personal defenses for privacy in the digital domain. It is a high volume mailing list.

Cypherpunks Announce
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There is an announcements list which is moderated and has low volume. Announcements for physical cypherpunks meetings, new software and important developments will be posted there.

Euro Firewalls
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Euro flavour firewall list.

Firewalls
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Useful information regarding firewalls and how to implement them for security.
This list is for discussions of Internet "firewall" security systems and related issues. It is an outgrowth of the Firewalls BOF session at the Third UNIX Security Symposium in Baltimore on September 15, 1992.

INFSEC-L Information Systems Security Forum
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INFSEC-L is for discussions of information systems security and related issues. Discussions are not moderated. Thus, all messages sent to the list are immediately distributed to members of the list. The discussion list is an outgrowth of the "Technology for the Information Security '94: Managing Risk" at Galveston, TX (December 5-8, 1994). The main objective of the list is to foster open and constructive communication among information systems security and auditing professionals in government, industry, and academic institutions. Initial subscriptions are screened by the listowner to ensure that only appropriate professionals are subscribed.

Intrusion Detection Systems
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The list is a forum for discussions on topics related to development of intrusion detection systems.
Possible topics include:
  • techniques used to detect intruders in computer systems and computer networks
  • audit collection/filtering
  • subject profiling
  • knowledge based expert systems
  • fuzzy logic systems
  • neural networks
  • methods used by intruders (known intrusion scenarios)
  • cert advisories
  • scripts and tools used by hackers
  • computer system policies
  • universal intrusion detection system


NTBugtraq
NTBugtraq is a mailing list for the discussion of security exploits and security bugs in Windows NT and its related applications.
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NT Security
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This is an moderated mailing list discussing Windows NT security as well as the Windows 95 and Windows For Work Group security issues.
The issues discussed will be everything at the host and application level security as well as at the network level.

Phrack
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Phrack is a Hacker Magazine which deals with phreaking and hacking.

PRIVACY Forum
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The PRIVACY Forum is run by Lauren Weinstein. He manages it as a rather selectively moderated digest, somewhat akin to RISKS; it spans the full range of both technological and non-technological privacy-related issues (with an emphasis on the former).

Risks
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Risks is a digest that describes many of the technological risks that happen in today's environment.

SAS (French Speaking Firewalls)
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Cette liste est destinee a la discussion sur la securisation des acces Internet, principalement a propos des solutions de type "Firewall" (sas de securite, coupe-feu ou garde-barriere).

Secure HTTP
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Secure NCSA httpd is a World-Wide Web (WWW) server supporting transaction privacy and authentication for Secure WWW clients over the Internet using the Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP). Secure NCSA httpd was developed by Enterprise Integration Technologies in cooperation with RSA Data Security and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The purpose of this mailing list(shttp-talk) is to allow people who are interested in potentially using SHTTP to ask questions, air issues, express concerns and discuss the specification and reference implementation. Information about Secure HTTP can be found on the CommerceNet WWW server. Click here for pertinent info.

Sneakers
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The Sneakers mailing list is for discussion of LEGAL evaluations and experiments in testing various Internet "firewalls" and other TCP/IP network security products.
  • Vendors are welcome to post challenges to the Internet network security community
  • Internet users are welcome to post anecdotal experiences regarding (legally) testing the defenses of firewall and security products.
  • "Above board" organized and/or loosely organized wide area tiger teams (WATTs) can share information, report on their progress or eventual success here.


Secure Socket Layer - Talk
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Mailing list to discuss secure sockets layer - Netscape's (and, increasingly, others') approach to providing encryption and authentication for IP-based services (primarily http, but expanding to address telnet and ftp as well).

UNINFSEC - University Info Security Forum
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This is a closed, unmoderated discussion list for people that have information security responsibilities in their jobs and who work for educational institutions or have a close relation with education. Discussions range from policy discussions, awareness programs, virus protection, change control, privileges, monitoring, risk assessments, auditing, business resumption, etc.

Virus
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It is an electronic mail discussion forum for sharing information and ideas about computer viruses, which is also distributed via the Usenet Netnews as comp.virus. Discussions should include (but not necessarily be limited to): current events (virus sightings), virus prevention (practical and theoretical), and virus related questions/answers. The list is moderated and digested. That means that any message coming in gets sent to me, the editor. I read through the messages and make sure that they adhere to the guidelines of the list (see below) and add them to the next digest. Weekly logs of digests are kept by the liSTSERV (see below for details on how to get them). For those interested in statistics, VIRUS-L is now up to about 2400 direct subscribers. Of those, approximately 10% are local redistribution accounts with an unknown number of readers. In addition, approximately 30,000-40,000 readers read comp.virus on the USENET.

Virus Alert
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What is VALERT-L?
It is an electronic mail discussion forum for sharing urgent virus warnings among other computer users. Postings to VALERT-L are strictly limited to warnings about viruses (e.g., "We here at University/Company X just got hit by virus Y - what should we do?"). Followups to messages on VALERT-L should be done either by private e-mail or to VIRUS-L, a moderated, digested, virus discussion forum also available on this liSTSERV, [email protected]. Note that any message sent to VALERT-L will be cross-posted in the next VIRUS-L digest. To preserve the timely nature of such warnings and announcements, the list is moderated on demand (see posting instructions below for more information).
What VALERT-L is *not*?
A place to to anything other than announce virus infections or warn people about particular computer viruses (symptoms, type of machine which is vulnerable, etc.).

WWW Security
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The list is maintained by the www-security team of Network Services, Rutgers University Telecommunications Division.
www-security is the official mailing list of the IETF Web Transaction Security Working Group. While there are many approaches to providing security services in the Web, most of the current work is concerned with securing the HyperText Transport Protocol. Because of (1) the great need for quick implementation of Web security services, (2) HTTP-level solutions cover a wide range of WWW applications, and (3) the IETF is a proven forum for promoting standards to vendors and the international networking community, we suggest that the list focus and development of Internet standards and related documents for secure services within HTTP.

SOS Freestone Firewall package
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The list is dedicated to the users and administrators of the free SOS firewall package, Freestone.

Tiger
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Discussion list for the UNIX security audit tool TIGER
This is the TIGER users mailling list. It is for:
  • Update announcements
  • Reporting bugs in TIGER.
  • Discussing new features for TIGER.
  • Discussing use of TIGER.
  • Discussing anything else about TIGER.
What is TIGER?
TIGER is a set of shell scripts, C code and configuration files which are used to perform a security audit on UNIX systems. The goals for TIGER are to make it very robust and easy to use. TIGER was originally developed for checking hosts at Texas A&M; University following a break in in the Fall of 1992.
The latest version of TIGER is always available from the directory net.tamu.edu:/pub/security/TAMU. In addition, updated digital signature files for new platforms and new security patches will be maintained in the directory:
net.tamu.edu:/pub/security/TAMU/tiger-sigs.

TIS Firewall Toolkit
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Discussion list for the TIS firewall toolkit

CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) Advisory mailing list.
To join, send e-mail to [email protected] and, in the text of your message (not the subject line), write: I want to be on your mailing list.
Past advisories and other information related to computer security are available for anonymous FTP from
cert.org (192.88.209.5).

The CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability) of DoE
CIAC manages the following mailing list for its electronic publications:
  • CIAC-Bulletin: CIAC Information Bulletins and Advisory Notices containing important, time-critical computer security information.
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HP, Hewlett Packard
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The latest digest of new HP Security Bulletins will be distributed directly to your mailbox on a routine basis.

Sun Security Alert
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The message body should contain affiliation and contact information.