[email protected] (Chad Rikansrud) writes: > As Charles pointed out - the hypothetical attack is about just taking > over the privileged user's PC and launching from there.
when corporations first started using VPN software over internet into corporate sites ... we pointed out trivial attack to take over the PC via the internet connection ... and then from the PC, tunnel through the VPN connection into corporate dataprocessing. in IBM Retirees facebook discussion, there has been a lot about recent news articles on buffett unloading IBM: Buffett cuts stake in IBM and shares slide https://phys.org/news/2017-05-buffett-stake-ibm.html Not Just Buffett: IBM Unit Sells IBM, Wells Fargo http://www.barrons.com/articles/not-just-buffett-ibm-unit-sells-ibm-wells-fargo-1494590407 But Buffett has also waded in on cybersecurity Warren Buffett's cybersecurity wake-up call -- are we listening? http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/333026-warren-buffetts-cybersecurity-wake-up-call-are-we-listening recent post about this predates Buffett recent reference going back more than 20yrs http://www.garlic.ccom/~lynn/2017e.html#85 Time to sack the cheif of computing in the NHS includes reference to conference that Tandem/Compaq & Atalla (ATM machine crypto company that Tandem had bought) put on for me ... really long winded posting from Jan1999: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm I have prototype secure chip (strong authentication for both sessions and transactions) demos/booth at world wide retail banking show Dec1999: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224 X9.59/AADS announcement at BAI this week trivia: the CEO of one of the security companies that participated in both the conference and the BAI demo ... had at one time been head of mainframe POK. recent posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#90 Ransomware on Mainframe application ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#91 Ransomware on Mainframe application ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#92 Check out New Wave of Ransom Threats Seen in Unprecedented Attack - Bloomberg -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
