Actual Security Cases

From: ullmic6@web.de
Date: 01/29/03

  • Next message: Talisker: "Re: Need recommendations about IDS Systems" 
    Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:23:25 +0100
From: "ullmic6@web.de" <ullmic6@web.de>
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com

    Does anybody know a good internet source of actual security related real
    life cases? I know that it's a risk to forward corporate mail to
    internet e-mail account like AOL or gmx. But I need a case like "in
    january 2001 the aol accounts of xyz got cracked and a lot of
    confidential data was published by some hackers on the internet" to
    convince a manager who thinks the risk is just theoretical and nothing
    ever happened. I would like to have such stories for different threats
    (no remote access via modem, no weak passwords, no unenecrypted data on
    laptops,...). In my opinion the stories in the book "Tangled Web" are
    just a starting point (some of them are not easy enough for managers). 

    -- 
<- ullmic6 ->

    Relevant Pages

    • it might overlook acceptable participants, do you avoid them
      ... Somebody weave once, cure hardly, then risk on the part of the record through the rock. ... the Internet is now being monitored. ... The manager told both me, ... and the U.S. Attorney and the two FBI agents this. ...
      (sci.crypt)
    • Re: Security
      ... help to get a little perspective on risk. ... Life is a risky business - no one gets out alive! ... internet is trivial by comparison. ... "ordinary" surfing including some high-risk surfing ...
      (alt.computer.security)
    • Re: [Full-Disclosure] Global HIGH Security Risk
      ... Basically you can't post any vuln without some risk attached, court rulings ... Internet is bound by US law. ... Global HIGH Security Risk ...
      (Full-Disclosure)
    • Re: [opensuse] Goodbye to suse and why not stay, The Linux Wall
      ... imagine an internet where all users know what they're doing... ... be the responsibility of a technology consumer. ... It's a sad fact that right now computing is so immature and yet so ... unwittingly exposing themselves to all manner of risk and hazard. ...
      (SuSE)
    • Re: comp.arch has made itself a sitting duck for spam
      ... practice of the industry favors farming the risk out--to the end buyer. ... Perhaps that's because the buyers accept the risk in preference to paying ... You bang on about everyone having to use the internet for ... look to the telephone network. ...
      (comp.arch)