Re: Actual Security Cases

["theog" <theog () theog org>]

Well , I can't really point you to such stories , but , I do ,however , have
an advise for you based on personal experiance.
make sure the proper people know about the risks (remote account hacking,
locking , being as secure as the remote mail server which is usually a
bigger target for hackers) - make sure you send a written memo or e-mail
about it to the proper people (not only your manager) , people tend to think
twice when it's their neck.


TheOg

> > Does anybody know a good internet source of actual
> > security related real
> > life cases? I know that it's a risk to forward
> > corporate mail to
> > internet e-mail account like AOL or gmx. But I need
> > a case like "in
> > january 2001 the aol accounts of xyz got cracked and
> > a lot of
> > confidential data was published by some hackers on
> > the internet" to
> > convince a manager who thinks the risk is just
> > theoretical and nothing
> > ever happened. I would like to have such stories for
> > different threats
> > (no remote access via modem, no weak passwords, no
> > unenecrypted data on
> > laptops,...). In my opinion the stories in the book
> > "Tangled Web" are
> > just a starting point (some of them are not easy
> > enough for managers).
> >
> > --
> > <- ullmic6 ->
>
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