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Re: Weird IP


From: anastasiosm () gmail com
Date: 1 Feb 2009 21:28:55 -0000

As Ansgar Wiechers said,
If the system was compromised, an attacker could also have altered the
logs to clear his trails.

I would agree with that.

But it is also important to answer the questions made by Robin Wood before point any fingers to anyone. Considering the 
only logs you have are coming from the webserver, and assuming that it is not compromised (so that logs have been 
modified, passwords been stolen etc), I think it worths checking how the card numbers can be accessed normally, eg 
through a web-interface, how do users authenticate etc, possible attack scenario you should also include in your list 
could be that of a CSRF attack.

Tasos


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