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Re: Security Incident


From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks () cadence com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:53:21 -0800 (PST)


From: "Robert Driscoll" <driscoll_r () primesource com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:45:48 -0800

[...snip...]
able to find out the owner of the source address, and as it happens
that company recently hired an ex-employee of ours. I also found out
that that ex-employee had the password for the router.

This is an example of why you must *always* change all privileged
passwords whenever an employee having that access leaves the
organization...

Even if *all* your former employees leave with the best of feelings
towards the company, it is *still* a great idea to change the passwords
whenever someone with privileged access leaves.  You never know what
may happen...

Regards,
Gregory Hicks



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