Re: Security - how to notice compromises.

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

There's something called LID, or something like that, which you can use.
Basically, you need programs monitoring the input and output of the server
on all ports, looking for suspect activity. Not greatly hard to set up,
but a bit of a bugger to use sometimes..

Regards,

Alex.


On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> 
>  I`m not terribly paranoid over the whole security thing...I generally
> only set things up to achieve one of two things:
> 
>  (a) to prove that I can and
>  (b) to maximise my time in bed.
> 
>  Still, I was interested when I was speaking to the postmaster at uni a
> while back he mentioned that when he was online from one of his machines
> at home a while back, someone tried to gain access to his system.
> 
>  How do folk pick up on attempts at entry to machines?
> 
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