Only this one is more lamerer. This will take a list of words from a list you provide and append them to the front of a provided domain to see if they are valid hostnames. The idea is that you can then cat the output into a master list of things to scan: [ Github: Hostfind ] It…
Archives for August 2006
DMZs: NATing vs. Using Public Addresses
Here’s a snip from a forum question that I’m getting ready to write a little piece on. My response is crude, but my next version of the response will be more intelligent. So my question is: If you have plenty of public IP addresses, is there any reason (from a security perspective) that you should still NAT your…
What Mail Server Do The Fortune 100 Companies Use?
Ever wonder what mail servers the top U.S. companies run? I found myself wondering what the top universities used a while back, and I just recently got curious as to what the Fortune 100 companies used as well. The results were quite interesting; it’s always fun to see what some of these admins put in their mail banners:…
Gentoo vs. Debian
I’ve been playing with Linux since 1999 and using it steadily in one capacity or another since 2001. I’ve tinkered with just about every major distribution out there and have come to some overall conclusions that I thought I’d share. Gentoo Gentoo has been my distribution of choice since 2002. My buddy Ken and I giddily installed it…
Information Security: The End Of The Wild West
[ Aug 2, 2006 ] If you’re an information security administrator/analyst with average skills and little interest in the field, your days are numbered. Contrary to what many believe, the field of information security won’t always be like this, i.e. an open, festering wound. I know that’s blasphemous to say — especially coming from a security guy —…