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Well, incidents like these are sure to stoke the discussion yet again. :-) - - ferg - -- Rick Wesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I talked to the reporter ( Jim Finkle ) he didn't know most of the common security acronyms and at one point asked "...what DOS - Disk Operating System had to do with any of this stuff." He had just started on Enterprise Security 2 weeks ago because Reuters didn't have enough articles on this stuff. I like what Previx did and WTF, if this information is public why not point it out.. If reporting on it causes harm, pull you pants back up. - -rick Paul Ferguson wrote: > Via InformationWeek. > > [snip] > > There are two questions in the realm of IT security that simply won't go > away: Can cybercrooks successfully attack at will, and are those who > report the details of these attacks causing more harm than good? > > The revelation earlier this week by a security vendor and research firm > that a Trojan-horse may have stolen sensitive information from hundreds > of businesses and government entities has revived this heated debate. > > [snip] > > More: > http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20100 > 18 60 > > Background: > http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1638118020070717 > > - ferg > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGnVYdq1pz9mNUZTMRAolsAJ9htePvqnASTRSZNsOxZaszIDOuWACfaVfa tNfq22MUXLQzyUraCQbEeaI= =mRO/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
