Re: Actual Security Cases
From: squid (squidvt@yahoo.com)
Date: 01/30/03
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:08:35 -0800 (PST) From: squid <squidvt@yahoo.com> To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
You might want to look at "Secrets and Lies : Digital
Security in a Networked World" By Bruce Schneier.
Even though it does not specificaly cover the risks of
forwarding email from a corporate account to a
personal account such as AOL or Yahoo, it does cover
how a lot of the need to mantain security for
communications. It sounds like you are facing a
classic problem I have seen with many managers,
ignorance to security and how it can affect there
ability to keep there jobs.
> 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 ->
>
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