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  CERT Advisory CA-1999-01 Trojan horse version of TCP Wrappers
Wietse Venema is the author and maintainer of the TCP Wrappers distribution.You can verify the integrity and authenticity of your distribution with Wietse Venema's PGP public key.
Wietse Venema expresses his gratitude to his former employer, Eindhoven University, for making possible the development and distribution of the TCP Wrapper software, and appreciates the support from system administrators of the department of mathematics and computing science.
Wietse Venema expresses his appreciation to Andrew Brown of Crossbar Security, Inc. for noticing that the TCP Wrapper source code had been tampered with, and for informing the author of the incident.
www.cert.org /advisories/CA-1999-01.html   (992 words)

  
 Catching up with Wietse Venema, creator of Postfix and TCP Wrapper
Wietse Venema is best known for the software TCP Wrapper, which is still widely used today and is included with almost all unix systems.
Wietse is also the author of the Postfix mail system and the co-author of the very cool suite of utilities called The Coroner's Toolkit or "TCT".
Wietse: The caricature was drawn, by an artist whose name I do not know, at a conference dinner in 1997 when the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (www.first.org) met for its annual conference in Bristol, UK.
www.microp.com /pub/postfix/linuxsecurity-200407.html   (1590 words)

  
 SANE 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Wietse Venema discusses lessons learned from the software that he released over the years.
Wietse Venema is known for his software such as the TCP Wrapper and the POSTFIX mail system.
Wietse has a Ph.D. in physics and is a research staff member at the IBM T.J.Watson research center in the USA.
www.nluug.nl /events/sane2004/abstracts/ab.html?id=11   (136 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Venema then repeatedly tried to insinuate that qmail-smtpd is the only UNIX network service that dynamically allocates memory up to rlimits or physical limits.
Venema claimed in August 1997 that this was a security advantage for his MTA.
Venema claims that this ``is bound to fail'' and that qmail ``becomes wedged'' and crashes with a large backlog.
cr.yp.to /qmail/venema.html   (632 words)

  
 Feature: The Coroner's Toolkit
Wietse Venema and Dan Farmer the authors of SATAN have written a package called The Coroner's Toolkit that is designed to help a System Administrator do forensic analysis on their cracked Unix box.
The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT) is a suite of tools written by Wietse Venema and Dan Farmer that was written to help a System Admin doing forensic analysis on their cracked Unix box.
Wietse Venema and Dan Farmer have done it again.
www.rootprompt.org /article.php3?article=738   (1314 words)

  
 Wietse Venema -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Wietse Zweitze Venema is a (The West Germanic language of the Netherlands) Dutch (A person who designs and writes and tests computer programs) programmer and (A scientist trained in physics) physicist best known for writing the (An affix that is added at the end of the word) Postfix mail system.
He has also written numerous other security related tools, such as (additional info and facts about The Coroners Toolkit) The Coroners Toolkit and (additional info and facts about TCP Wrapper) TCP Wrapper.
In his spare time he enjoys (additional info and facts about hiking) hiking and (The sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle) cycling.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wi/Wietse_Venema.htm   (250 words)

  
 gmane.mail.postfix.user
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:48:45AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > No-one seems to have considered the common use of ${sender} with > the q flag (quote the local-part, for Postfix sendmail command line > compatibility).
Victor Duchovni: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:48:45AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > No-one seems to have considered the common use of ${sender} with > > the q flag (quote the local-part, for Postfix sendmail command line > > compatibility).
Wietse Venema: > > Perhaps when the "q" flag (required for robust passing of sender and > > recipients to sendmail(1) even when non-empty) is present, the replacement > > of the empty sender with MAILER_DAEMON can be suppressed, because the > > argument will actually be the literal string: "".
comments.gmane.org /gmane.mail.postfix.user/119964   (4967 words)

  
 gmane.mail.postfix.announce
Wietse 20050402 Cleanup: updated error messages about MIME processing errors in the SMTP client.
Postfix 2.2.1 solves four portability problems that surfaced in the week since the 2.2.0 release, one harmless bug in the TLS session cache cleaning code, and cleans up minor documentation problems that were reported on the Postfix list and in private email.
Wietse 20041002 Long overdue, a master(5) manual page based on an initial version by Magnus Baeck.
blog.gmane.org /gmane.mail.postfix.announce   (1789 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Forensic Discovery: Books: Dan Farmer,Wietse Venema   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema cover both theory and hands-on practice, introducing a powerful approach that can often recover evidence considered lost forever.
Farmer and Venema are clearly in the second category, and their examples focus on intrusion scenarios rather than workplace misuse of the Internet.
Farmer and Venema focus a fair amount of attention on the concept of time and how to use it in a forensic investigation.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/020163497X?v=glance   (2407 words)

  
 CIAC Notes 95-10
The following was released by Wietse Venema through a vendor bulletin VB-95:04.venema (ftp://cert.org:/pub/cert_bulletins/VB-95:04.venema).
Wietse Venema, who urges you to act on this information as soon as possible.
Wietse Venema appreciates helpful assistance with the resolution of this vulnerability from CERT/CC; Rodney W. Grimes, FreeBSD Core Team Member; Guido van Rooij, Philips Communication and Processing Services; Walter Belgers.
ciac.llnl.gov /ciac/notes/Notes10.shtml   (1720 words)

  
 LKML: (Wietse Venema): Re: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
LKML: (Wietse Venema): Re: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias
Matthew Kirkwood: > On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > If an MTA receives a delivery request for user@[ip.address] then > > the MTA has to decide if it is the final destination.
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lkml.org /lkml/2001/9/8/36   (232 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/index.html and includes ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcpd-fllist-patch Copyright updated on 2001/06/08 from ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license Upstream Author: Wietse Venema Copyright: /************************************************************************ * Copyright 1995 by Wietse Venema.
* * This material was originally written and compiled by Wietse Venema at * Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1990, 1991, * 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995.
************************************************************************/ Thanks to Wietse Venema for his permission to include the tcp_wrapper package in the Debian Distribution.
lists.debian.org /doc/tcpd/copyright   (157 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - The Book of Postfix: State-of-the-Art Message Transport - Ralf Hildebrandt - ...
To manage it, one option is Postfix, the highly regarded open source mail transfer agent (MTA) authored by Wietse Venema, which is known for its enhanced security, relatively simple configuration and excellent performance.
They consulted regularly with the developers of Postfix, including Venema, during the development of "The Book of Postfix," as well as other contributing programmers and virtually every noted expert active in the Postfix Users mailing list.
Venema's offering of Postfix has emerged as a serious competitor to sendmail.
search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=1593270011   (927 words)

  
 NLUUG najaarsconferentie 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The paradox of persistence and volatility is one of the topics that will be discussed.
Wietse Venema is the author of famous and notorious software such as the TCP Wrapper, the Postfix mail system, and, co-authored with Dan Farmer, SATAN and the recently released Coroner's Toolkit for computer forensic analysis.
After an education in physics in Groningen and after a transformation into computing science in Eindhoven, Wietse now is a research staff member at IBM in the USA.
www.nluug.nl /events/nj2000/abstracts/venema.html   (131 words)

  
 Dan Farmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Together he and Wietse Venema, have written many of the world’s leading information security and forensics packages, including the SATAN network security scanner and the Coroner’s Toolkit.
Wietse Venema has written some of the world’s most widely used software, including TCP Wrapper and the Postfix mail system.
He is currently a research staff member at IBM Research.
www.informit.com /authors/bio.asp?a=2a0908e1-cfb8-4815-a38b-eb5e8de0e62f   (110 words)

  
 Venema aims to make network software safe
It hasn't become easy yet, though, for people like IBM research staff member Wietse Venema, who's in the middle of a project "to build a mail system that does not screw up your machine," called VMailer.
In the case of Venema's domain, though, the most accomplished and dangerous intruders "know that for many years, my Internet gateway has been logging every network packet to disk.
Away from the keyboard, Venema and his wife Annita are looking forward to replacing the bicycles they sold when they moved.
www.microp.com /pub/postfix/developer.199810.html   (1189 words)

  
 Murphy's Law and Computer Security - Wietse (ResearchIndex)
Wietse Venema Mathematics and Computing Science Eindhoven University of...
Abstract: This paper discusses lessons learned from a selection of computer security problems that have surfaced in the recent past, and that are likely to show up again in the future.
1 Wietse Venema: Improving the security of your site by breaki..
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /wietse96murphys.html   (454 words)

  
 The Postfix Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
First of all, thank you for your interest in the Postfix project.
Wietse Venema's mailer that started life as an alternative to the widely-used
Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset existing users.
www.postfix.org   (70 words)

  
 gmane.mail.postfix.user
Below is the content of the DSN_NOTES file in the top-level source code directory; it discusses implementation details and loose ends.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:53:11AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Although the over-all architecture for DSN support was implemented > long ago with Postfix version 1.0, the final implementation of all > the required status attributes required some restructuring of the > error and success reporting code.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:28:54AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Snapshot 20050510 would be updated only in case of a disaster.
comments.gmane.org /gmane.mail.postfix.user/119991   (917 words)

  
 Wietse's collection of tools and papers
The Coroner's Toolkit is yet another result from the long-lasting collaboration between security researchers Dan Farmer (Earthlink) and Wietse Venema (IBM).
Postfix is Wietse Venema's attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
Slightly updated version of an article that was posted to Usenet on December 2, 1993, titled: "Improving the security of your site by breaking into it." by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema.
public.planetmirror.com /pub/porcupine/security   (1040 words)

  
 alphaWorks : Secure Mailer : Overview
Wietse Venema is the author of software for improving Internet security; his widely-used software has an installed base of millions of systems.
After completing his Ph.D. in Physics at the KVI in Groningen, the Netherlands, Dr. Venema joined the Mathematics and Computing Science department of Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
He is currently an IBM research staff member at the Global Security Analysis Laboratory in Hawthorne, New York.
www.alphaworks.ibm.com /formula/securemailer   (78 words)

  
 2000/freebsd-scsi/20000521.freebsd-scsi
May 20 Wietse Venema Data point: FreeBSD 4.0 + removable SCSI support 5.
May 17 Wietse Venema Need FreeBSD 4.0 removable SCSI support 6.
May 18 Wietse Venema Re: Need FreeBSD 4.0 removable SCSI support 10.
docs.freebsd.org /mail/archive/2000/freebsd-scsi/20000521.freebsd-scsi.html   (354 words)

  
 Computer books at discount prices - nerdbooks.com
As Dan and Wietse show, even people trying to be sneaky leave evidence all over, sometimes in surprising places.
Not only do they clearly describe what you can find during a forensic investigation, they also provide research found nowhere else about how long data remains on disk and in memory.
Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema cover both theory and hands-on practice, introducing a powerful approach that can often recover evidence considered lost forever.The authors draw on their extensive firsthand experience to cover everything from file systems, to memory and kernel hacks, to malware.
www.nerdbooks.com /item.php?id=020163497X   (546 words)

  
 UNIX System Administration Handbook
Optional features are: access control to restrict what systems can connect to your network daemons; remote user name lookups with the RFC 931 protocol; additional protection against hosts that pretend to have someone elses host name; additional protection against hosts that pretend to have someone elses host address.
-- Quoted from README by Wietse Venema in the tcp_wrapper 6.3 distribution.
Prerequisites: Requirements are that the network daemons are spawned by a super server such as the inetd; a 4.3BSD-style socket programming interface and/or System V.4-style TLI programming interface; and the availability of a syslog(3) library and of a syslogd(8) daemon.
www.admin.com /Pages/tcpd.html   (305 words)

  
 [No title]
Architecture: i386 Source: postfix Version: 2.2.3-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libldap2 (>= 2.1.17-1), postfix, postfix (= 2.2.3-2) Filename:./postfix-ldap_2.2.3-2_i386.deb Size: 36936 MD5sum: b5035b2ef61a9d9561da2e3c9fef3c44 Description: LDAP map support for Postfix Postfix is Wietse Venema's mail transport agent that started life as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
Architecture: i386 Source: postfix Version: 2.2.3-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libmysqlclient10, postfix, postfix (= 2.2.3-2) Filename:./postfix-mysql_2.2.3-2_i386.deb Size: 32822 MD5sum: 9d6c05ae4da1e8d660b1ebdf34e9c9a2 Description: MYSQL map support for Postfix Postfix is Wietse Venema's mail transport agent that started life as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
Architecture: i386 Source: postfix Version: 2.2.3-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libpcre3 (>= 4.5), postfix, postfix (= 2.2.3-2) Filename:./postfix-pcre_2.2.3-2_i386.deb Size: 32128 MD5sum: c69d1277106b439894a70384ee00c90e Description: PCRE map support for Postfix Postfix is Wietse Venema's mail transport agent that started life as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
people.debian.org /~lamont/postfix/Packages   (591 words)

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