Re: Obama / McCain both hire incompetent IT staff, computers hacked
- From: Leythos <spam999free@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:44:49 -0500
In article <gf8pkf$9rm$1@xxxxxxxx>, chilly8@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
Leythos wrote:
In article <gf8lla$mg0$1@xxxxxxxx>, chilly8@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
I have mentioned many times people circumventing firewalls to get to
my online radio station (or any other). Well, I have found that someone
at one consulting firm in Seattle has managed to circumvent the office
firewall and use their Comcast cable modem account to get to my station.
And in doing so, there is a glaring path out of the firewall to a
residential connection that has no business reason.
Most of the Security Professionals spot this activity in seconds and it
is blocked, but it's blocked by default in a properly secured network
anyway.
Well, this was from an IT consulting firm that specalises in firewalls.
The fact that someone was able to get past the firewall proves that even
a so-called "secure" network is infallable.
No, it doesn't. Many places allow certain ports open, some don't apply
the same rules for secure networks as others.
A company that specializes in Firewalls is not any more secure than a
company that specializes in Paint or Flowers - it's about their rules
and desire to limit connections. They could allow streaming audio as a
general rule.
One would think that a IT consulting firm specialising in network
security would be able to secure their own office network. Then again,
like I said, even a "secure" network is not 100 percent infallable.
Maybe they have not found a reason to secure their network against all
traffic that isn't business necessary. Since you don't know your
assumptions are, well, just your head up your ass again.
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