Re: Ok, so now we have a firewall, we're safe, right?

[Carson Gaspar <carson () taltos org>]

[ Industrial espionage via emailed trojan code ]

--On Monday, May 30, 2005 12:18:05 PM -0400 "Paul D. Robertson" 
<paul () compuwar net> wrote:

> If ever there were a wakeup call for people to start analyzing their
> firewall logs, this is it-  nobody at any of the companies involved
> figured this out due to firewall logs, an author figured it out because
> their unpublished book was leaking.

Huh? Their firewalls allowed executable attachments to be delivered from 
unknown sources to people uneducated enough to click on them. Said 
firewalls failed. Examining the logs may have alerted them sooner, but 
that's closing the barn door long after the horses have escaped and 
trampled the children.

--
Carson

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