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Re: Interesting Video


From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:21:52 -0800

See also this story:

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3887

There are several lessons to be learned from this:

1) Backups are your friend

2) Honesty and openness with your employees pays dividends

3) Least-privilege permissions are a Good Thing (tm)

Kurt

On Jan 25, 2008 3:39 PM, Charles Hardin <fonestorm () gmail com> wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/01/24/pkg.disgruntled.employee.wtlv

Apparently this lady was able to simply go in and delete 7 years of
data, where the owner had to pay for data recovery. Lessons to be
learned for this company perhaps?



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