Re: I've been hacked...tips for a postmortem?

From: Wojtek Walczak (gminick@hacker.pl)
Date: 11/12/02 

From: Wojtek Walczak <gminick@hacker.pl>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:14:22 +0000 (UTC)

Dnia Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:50:27 -0500, Gaétan Martineau napisa³(a):
> Frightening. If I understand well, this is like saying no newbie can
> ever set up a firewall to accurately keeps its personal stuff away from
> crackers...?
> Wait a minute, there must be some way to learn, slowly build something
> and not get busted, right?
Security is a process. You can't stop that just like that.
You should 'do security' everyday :) 

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