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

["Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>]

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Carson Gaspar wrote:

> [ 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 their unpublished book was leaking.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.

All too true, however at this stage in the game, I'm willing to declare
that a victory!  I also wanted to raise the issue of the out-of-band CD
attacks because I don't think enough people have visited that corner of
the world recently, especially with the cost of USB devices going down
for variations sake...

Paul
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