[fw-wiz] re: A little paranoia for the weekend... (OT)
From: Mike Hoskins (mike_at_adept.org)
Date: 07/29/03
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To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:34:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Josh Welch" <jwelch@buffalowildwings.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:46:19 -0500
> Think of this when someone tries to tell you how "secure" web based
> remote pc applications are.
>http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/23/cybercafe.security.ap/index.html
Not so sure it's firewall related, but it's definately nothing new... I
recall when BO (Back Orifice) was first released, various groups at a
local 2600 meeting were going around to bookstores, coffe shops, school
libraries, etc... anywhere they could get to a computer... and trojaning
the systems. (That included keylogging among other things.) Around the
same time, I noticied evidence of BO in many of the PCs in our school
labs. (Luckily, CS/CE students mostly stuck to SPARCs. ;)
True paranoia would insist that you never type a reusable password on an
untrusted machine... Untrusted being any machine you haven't audited
since it was last out of sight/network connected. ;)
-mrh
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