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Re: Data-Stealing Trojan Disclosure Frustrates Researchers, V endors, and L aw Enforcement
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:52:14 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Interesting. Well, incidents like these are sure to stoke the discussion yet again. :-) - - ferg - -- Rick Wesson <wessorh () ar com> wrote: I talked to the reporter ( Jim Finkle ) he didn't know most of the common security acronyms and at one point asked "...what DOS - Disk Operating System had to do with any of this stuff." He had just started on Enterprise Security 2 weeks ago because Reuters didn't have enough articles on this stuff. I like what Previx did and WTF, if this information is public why not point it out.. If reporting on it causes harm, pull you pants back up. - -rick Paul Ferguson wrote:
Via InformationWeek. [snip] There are two questions in the realm of IT security that simply won't go away: Can cybercrooks successfully attack at will, and are those who report the details of these attacks causing more harm than good? The revelation earlier this week by a security vendor and research firm that a Trojan-horse may have stolen sensitive information from hundreds of businesses and government entities has revived this heated debate. [snip] More: http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20100 18 60 Background: http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1638118020070717 - ferg
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