Re: Need Help Security issue
From: John Elsbury (johne@neveryoumind.co.nz)
Date: 03/27/03
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From: johne@neveryoumind.co.nz (John Elsbury) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 03:21:32 GMT
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:22:09 GMT, "Steve" <sklives@(remove)cox.net>
wrote:
> If someone changed the clock on a computer to a time and date when another
>employee was using the computer. Then the person accesses pornographic
>material leaving hundreds of temporary internet files and cookies on the
>computer for the boss to see. I need to know if there is any way to tell if
>the clock was changed while those porn sites were accessed. Will someone
>please help because a good man's career and family is at stake here!
>
It seems (from the mention of a career) that you are talking about a
corporate environment. If this is the case, there may well be proxy
and/or firewall logs showing the time the activity took place.
>From the prosecution / defence viewpoint, there is the "burden of
proof". I would not treat cookies on a PC as evidence "proving beyond
all reasonable doubt", and a defence lawyer would point that out, but
I would find it much harder to argue with evidence from logs
separately maintained in a more secure environment.
There is nothing to stop anybody from transplanting convincing-looking
temporary files and/or cookies into the requisite places on a PC, if
they have enough access to it.
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