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Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1
From: JC Dill <nanog () vo cnchost com>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:13:23 -0800
At 08:56 AM 2/5/2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Is there some really good "network security for dummies" book that I can point such people at?
A "social" approach is often more effective than the "technical" approach i.e. it is often easier to hack into a secured system via "social hacking". In a similar vein, while I have no idea if it's "good", but I bet it would be satisfying *and* effective (no matter if he actually reads the book or not) to buy a copy and give it to the luser^W idiot ^W NOCling in question:
<http://www.cobb.com/chey/Network_Security_for_Dummies.html>You could take a cluebat[1] along when you give it to him. A bit of carrot and stick approach. :-)
jc[1] <http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030210&mode=classic> UF was actually selling these for a while, unfortunately they are all sold out now.
Current thread:
- ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Ingevaldson, Dan (ISS Atlanta) (Feb 04)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Christopher L. Morrow (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Alexei Roudnev (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Martin Hepworth (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Crist Clark (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Alexei Roudnev (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Scott McGrath (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Christopher L. Morrow (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Christopher L. Morrow (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 JC Dill (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Crist Clark (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Stephen Stuart (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Randy Bush (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Feb 05)
- Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 McBurnett, Jim (Feb 06)