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Hacking fun in the London Stock Exchange
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 06:50:22 -0500
from: http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1936157,00.html Rusal, the Russian aluminium company engaged in a three-way merger deal that would bring it to the London Stock Exchange, is to face legal action in Britain over allegations of computer hacking. A high court claim is being brought by Ansol and its consultant Ashton Investments. Rusal and Ansol were formerly partners in a joint venture to supply alumina to TadAZ, a smelter in Tajikistan. The companies are already locked in another legal fight in London over allegations of bribery which TadAZ, supported by Rusal, has brought against Ansol. Ashton alleges that last January it discovered its computer had been hacked. It claims it traced some of this back to IP addresses registered to Rusal. Rusal denies its employees accessed Ashton's computer, adding that its IT department had previously installed wi-fi access to the web, which can now only be accessed by computers with a recognised number. It said the most likely explanation was that third parties had cloned the numbers by which they could use Rusal's wi-fi access and left the Rusal IP address on other machines "so that it would appear (falsely) that it was a Rusal employee who had obtained the unauthorised access". _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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