-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Ferguson wrote: > Via NBC11.com. > > [snip]
The funny part about all of this, at least according to what I read on The Register this morning...they're still locked out of the network. It's been approx a week. lol While I normally wouldn't find this so funny, I just can't stop thinking: I wonder if they ever heard of the phrase "Disaster Recovery"??? Priceless... A whole week and they can't get back in... > > San Francisco prosecutors charged a city worker Monday with illegally > tampering with the city's computer network, potentially exposing the > information of both city workers and anyone who does business with the > city. > > Police arrested Terry Childs, 43, a network administrator for San > Francisco's Department of Telecommunications and Information Services, over > the weekend, according to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. > > According to District Attorney Kamala Harris, Childs is believed to have > disrupted the city's FiberWAN network system between June 20 and July 10. > He was arrested on Sunday at his home in Pittsburg and is being held on $5 > million bail, she said. > > At a news conference in San Francisco Monday afternoon, Harris was vague > about the facts or motive behind the sensitive case, citing an ongoing > investigation. > > Harris said the charges relate to "rules about accessing our computer > systems and about who has authorized or unauthorized access to those > systems." > > According to Harris, Childs is believed to have temporarily denied services > to authorized users on the network, and to have set up devices that would > allow a user to gain unauthorized access to the network. > > [snip] > > More: > http://www.nbc11.com/news/16884468/detail.html > > - ferg > - -- "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. - -- Rob +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | _ | | ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) | | - against HTML email X | | / \ | | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Ignorance is bliss... iEYEARECAAYFAkh9WF0ACgkQcfN68iZZIcf0PgCfbnSmn6wYCJ6BxQmcj6IeaGoa 0d0AoLaSV/oJLtVh7VUZEJkW691XN4w3 =A40f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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.
