RE: scary but true

["Keller, Tim" <Tim.Keller () stratus com>]

I think the best thing you could setup a demonstration and scare the crap
out of them...

My wife was convinced that her mail and IM traffic was secure until I sat
her down and with ethereal took apart all the packets her machine had
received in the last 30 minutes and reconstructed all her IM conversations,
all the websites she had visited and all the mail she had read.  Needless to
say, she was very surprised and had a new appreciated for how "open" the
internet was.

When people are busy sailing down the river of denial, sometimes you need to
give them a kick in the pants...

Later,
Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Gray [mailto:simong () desktop-guardian com]
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:35 AM
To: Zachary Mutrux; Security-Basics
Subject: Re: scary but true


> Does anyone know of a good source (book, website) of true case studies of
> security incidents? I'd like to have some stories to relate to complacent
> coworkers, clients, etc.

None of these are technically case studies, but theres plenty of info there.

http://www.securityfocus.com/search

change the search area to 'incidents' theres lots on there.

there's also the daily zone-h list of defaced websites >>
http://www.zone-h.org/defacements/onhold <<


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