[SCADASEC] Formatting

[Bob Radvanovsky]

I *think* we found the problem.  For years, this server has been crankin' out spam, and we didn't know it until AT&T called and tapped me on the shoulder with a 'friendly reminder'.  Myself and one of my buddies did an upgrade on this server prior to announcing it on the SCADA gospel list.  We upgraded the mail server's software and (ahem) 'enhanced' it (gave it some teeth).  One of the options was to *remove* any HTML tags.  I completely forgot that there are people out there still using Eudora, and this offline reader relies heavily upon HTML for its formatting.  MS Outlook and Outlook Express can go either way.  For the time being, I've re-enabled HTML tagging on the server.

I am hoping that *this* was your culprit.  Hopefully, others on this mailing list won't have any issues with HTML tagged email messages.  Should you have further formatting problems, please let me know.

Thanks for letting us know...  ;)

-rad

P.S.  Did that fix your issue, Ken?

----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Curtis [mailto:wdlndengrg at gmail.com]
To: scadasec at news.infracritical.com
Subject: Re: [SCADASEC] Formatting


> Bob,
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> I don't know what is happening, but much of the 
> mail from SCADASEC is coming through without any 
> white space. It looks like one giant, 
> single-spaced paragraph, and for us people with 
> (far) less than perfect vision, it is truly a chore to read the material.
> 
> It's possible that because I use Eudora for my 
> email client that this happens, but email from 
> the [SCADA] list does not have this problem. 
> Other email from [SCADASEC] comes through fine. 
> Below are examples of a badly formatted letter 
> and a good formatted message. I don't know if you 
> see what I see, but the poorly formatted message appears as a single
> paragraph.
> 
> In looking at the email source, the major 
> difference appears to be that the good formatted 
> messages include the <BR> HTML tag whereas the 
> poorly formatted messages do not.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Respectfully,
> Ken Curtis
> 
> 
> [BEGIN bad formatting]
> 
> >** MODERATOR'S NOTE:  Could this apply to SCADA 
> >and control systems architectures?  You bet, it 
> >could! URL: 
> >http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45781-1.html 
> >GCN Home > 02/05/08 web stories TCS makes Linux 
> >DISA compliant By Joab Jackson Trusted Computer 
> >Solutions has upgraded its Security Blanket 
> >security compliance software so that it can make 
> >Red Hat Enterprise Linux compliant with the 
> >settings defined in the Defense Information 
> >Systems Agency’s Security Technical 
> >Implementation Guide for that operating system. 
> >The profile also includes Linux security 
> >profiles from the SANS Institute and the Center 
> >for Internet Security, and a security profile 
> >for the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) 
> >in addition to RHEL. TCS offers Security Blanket 
> >1.2 not only to Defense agencies, but to 
> >civilian agencies as well. â€The Department of 
> >Defense has invested a great deal of time and 
> >research in the development of these lockdown 
> >guidelines,†said Ed Hammersla, chief 
> >operating officer at TCS, in a statement “Now 
> >commercial companies and civilian government 
> >agencies can have the same level of security as 
> >the DOD.†DISA developed STIGS as a way to 
> >establish a secure baseline configuration for 
> >the agency's servers. TCS claims that the 
> >Security Blanket is the first software to 
> >automate the setting and checking of the DISA 
> >STIG configurations on RHEL servers. Security 
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> [END bad formatting]
> 
> [BEGIN good formatting]
> 
> >Thought that everyone might find this tool 
> >useful, which is esp. useful for those 
> >organizations that might utilize Cisco Aironet 
> >products (wireless) within their environments.
> >
> >-rad
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >Subject: CDPSnarf (Cisco Discovery Protocol sniffer)
> >
> >
> > > Greetings to the list,
> > >
> > > I just wanted to share with you some code I wrote for CDP sniffing.
> > > The project is named CDPSnarf.
> > >
> > > You can find it here:
> > > http://segfault.gr/projects/lang/en/projects_id/14/secid/28/
> > >
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> [END of good formatting]
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