Re: Gathering volatile information

On 4/13/05, Bob the Builder <builder173@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In the Unix environment there seem to be various lists of bits and pieces
> but no really definitive list of commands related to gathering volatile
> information that you should and shouldn't run and what types of things they
> are likely to interfere with. Am I missing something here, does just such a
> list exist and I'm just not looking in the right place, or is it about time
> somone set about righting one? I'm not talking about a religious argument on
> the merits of what stage a machine should be taken offline at but more what
> the volatile data gathering options are that are available to you if as in
> incident handler you need them.

Try http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/intruder_detection_checklist.html,
that may be what you're looking for.

-- 
Kyle Maxwell
[krmaxwell@gmail.com]

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