Re: Trojan horse attack involving many major Israeli companies, executives

2005-06-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Amir Herzberg wrote: Nicely put, but I think not quite fair. From friends in financial and other companies in the states and otherwise, I hear that Trojans are very common there as well. In fact, based on my biased judgement and limited exposure, my impression is that security practice is much

Re: Trojan horse attack involving many major Israeli companies, executives

2005-06-01 Thread Amir Herzberg
J.A. Terranson wrote: So, how long before someone, possibly even me, points out that all Checkpoint software is built in Israel? Nicely put, but I think not quite fair. From friends in financial and other companies in the states and otherwise, I hear that Trojans are very common there as

Re: Trojan horse attack involving many major Israeli companies, executives

2005-05-31 Thread Amir Herzberg
John, yes, I believe the Trojan ran on Windows. In fact, I just met my kids schoolmaster, and turns out she was also a victim of that person - already 3-4 years ago!!! Her daughter learned with his in the same school, and apparently he got mad at them and started abusing them in the most crazy

Re: Trojan horse attack involving many major Israeli companies, executives

2005-05-31 Thread J.A. Terranson
John Saylor wrote: hi ( 05.05.30 15:34 +0200 ) Amir Herzberg: See more info e.g. at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581790.html an excellent tale [still unfolding]- no doubt coming to a bookstore or movie theatre near you real soon. of course, it was never mentioned in

Trojan horse attack involving many major Israeli companies, executives

2005-05-30 Thread Amir Herzberg
Possibly the most visible Trojan attack was just exposed by the Israeli police. The Trojan was written (apparently) by an Israeli programmer, living in Europe in the last few years. It was planted in many Israeli companies, such as the major cellular companies. There were conflicting reports