On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Paul Hill paulroberth...@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 September 2013 14:43, Jean Laeremans
laeremans.jeanma...@gmail.com wrote:
Did far more or at least could do far more than eavesdropping.
The IT people i heard were - to put it mildly - not amused.
The IT
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From: Jean Laeremans laeremans.jeanma...@gmail.com
To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [NF] How Can Passworded Zip Files be Dangerous?
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Paul Hill paulroberth...@gmail.com
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Ken Dibble krdib...@stny.rr.com wrote:
This could have easily have turned out in a digital 9/11 a few times over.
http://gigaom.com/2013/09/16/**belgian-telco-says-it-was-**
It was far worse than that. BICS - a major European provider - was
targeted.
The whole infrastructure was in danger !
Estimated costs of the removal of the malware : 5.000.000 E..
Wow ! That that whole infrastructure was a malware ... ;o)
Whatever it was it does not excuse other governments spying on it. USA or UK
whoever did it.
Al
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Wow ! That that whole infrastructure was a malware ... ;o)
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Whatever it was it does not excuse other governments spying on it. USA or UK
whoever did it.
Yes. As I said, I am completely opposed to that kind of thing.
My reading of the linked story didn't tell me that something got damaged
though.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
Nor me, I didn't know it was. From what I understood is the cable was
possibly intercepted as it crossed uk soil/water and I would have guessed it
was electronic rather than breaking into the cable. I think too much
invasion of privacy is done in the name of anti terrorism. I believe it's
used as
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Allen pro...@gatwicksoftware.com wrote:
Nor me, I didn't know it was. From what I understood is the cable was
possibly intercepted as it crossed uk soil/water and I would have guessed
it
was electronic rather than breaking into the cable. I think too much
On 23 September 2013 14:43, Jean Laeremans
laeremans.jeanma...@gmail.com wrote:
Did far more or at least could do far more than eavesdropping.
The IT people i heard were - to put it mildly - not amused.
The IT people were not doing their jobs in the first place by letting
malware into the
I'm not surprised they were not amused. This is way out of order. Bet no one
owns up
Al
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Nah Al it was malware. Rather sophisticated stuff . Discovered mid august
but it took until a few days ago to remove it as it had to be done in one
sweep.
Did far more or at least
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On 23 September 2013 14:43, Jean Laeremans laeremans.jeanma...@gmail.com
wrote:
Did far more or at least could do far more than eavesdropping
Rather cheap remark Paul
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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ken
Dibble
Sent: 21 September 2013 20:53
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Subject: RE: [NF] How Can Passworded Zip Files be Dangerous?
Don't believe it. Google is listening all the time. Put the hosts file
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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ken
Dibble
Sent: 21 September 2013 20:53
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Subject: RE: [NF] How Can Passworded Zip Files be Dangerous?
Don't believe it. Google is listening all the time. Put the hosts file
This could have easily have turned out in a digital 9/11 a few times over.
http://gigaom.com/2013/09/16/belgian-telco-says-it-was-hacked-while-reports-point-to-nsa-or-gchq-as-culprit/
I am absolutely opposed to any effort by the US government to eavesdrop on
email, or any other
On 21 September 2013 01:34, Ken Dibble krdib...@stny.rr.com wrote:
Can anyone tell me how a passworded zip file can be a threat?
Probably because the virus scanner cannot open it.
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Ken Dibble krdib...@stny.rr.com wrote:
Can anyone tell me how a passworded zip file can be a threat?
http://bit.ly/1exqlOT
If the zip file contains malware, it has to be unzipped before the malware
can operate, right?
And how can a user unzip a file for
As long as you have no users that know the password, or no users that do
know the password but can recognise suspicious contents in the zip file,
I wouldn't say they are a vector you need to worry about. Your virus
scanner will probably throw a wobbly because it can't scan inside them
though.
Can anyone tell me how a passworded zip file can be a threat?
Probably because the virus scanner cannot open it.
Yup, that part I got. But to my mind, the fact that the virus scanner can't
scan it doesn't render it a threat. It only becomes a threat if somebody
can actually execute the
Can anyone tell me how a passworded zip file can be a threat?
Um. I'm not sure. Let me google that for you...
http://bit.ly/1exqlOT
Well yeah, I actually did that exact Google before I sent this message.
It's people's reasoning that I don't understand.
And how would a user get a
Don't believe it. Google is listening all the time. Put the hosts file on
your computer and see.
Al
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What are the odds that the recipient actually had a recent conversation
about a file with a person chosen at random by a bot to put in the From
field of that email?
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Ken Dibble krdib...@stny.rr.com wrote:
Well yeah, I actually did that exact Google before I sent this message.
It's people's reasoning that I don't understand.
I thought you would :). It's people in dead-end, low-wage, low-morale work
whose job it is to open
Don't believe it. Google is listening all the time. Put the hosts file on
your computer and see.
Not a problem. I wear my tinfoil-covered colander on my head at all times.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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What??? No pyramid?
Al
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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ken
Dibble
Sent: 21 September 2013 20:53
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF] How Can Passworded Zip Files be Dangerous?
Don't believe it. Google is listening all the time
Passworded Zip Files be Dangerous?
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Ken Dibble krdib...@stny.rr.com wrote:
Well yeah, I actually did that exact Google before I sent this message.
It's people's reasoning that I don't understand.
I thought you would :). It's people in dead-end, low-wage, low-morale
I was once at a conference on security and a guy from NASA told the story of
how they wrote their own virus and put it on a floppy labeled something
about sex, naked women or something like that, and within a few days it was
on almost every computer in the place I have never understood the
Well yeah, I actually did that exact Google before I sent this message.
It's people's reasoning that I don't understand.
I thought you would :).
Well, what I actually meant to say is that I did that Google before I sent
the *first* message. :)
What are the odds that the recipient
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Ken Dibble krdib...@stny.rr.com wrote
In theory, theory and practice have the same outcome. In practice, not so
much.
Wasn't that Yogi Berra?
Well, in theory.
He also said, I never said most of the things I said. -- Read more at
Okay, I know that I can sometimes be too literal in responding to things.
And I know that I am insufficiently devious when thinking about computer
security threats. I also have this orientation towards using a risk-benefit
analysis approach to addressing security threats that does not seem to
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