RE: New security threat: Back packs

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

They're not really backpacks, more like black canvas bags with two drawstrings and a silkscreened logo on them.   I can 
get the same things from Oriental trading company for less than a buck a piece, but that is without the logo...  I'm 
sure if I bought 2000 of them, that the logo would be thrown in for nothing....  or something like that :-)
 
Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 

 

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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 10:39 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] New security threat: Back packs


Nope, Quincy is a notch below Newton.  
 
I bet back backs go for $10 a pop when you buy 2,000 of them.
 
Sofia somehow nailed $200K in funding:
 
http://forums.techcrunch.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=12465
 
A little about me and my site....( We just went live 2 days ago, so bear with me, while glitches, and add-on come 
alone) 

Sofia Loginova, 17, of Quincy might just be the next MySpace creators Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe. Dubbed a ?next 
generation? social networking site, Loginova is ready to launch B4Class.com in (date). The new site features popular 
social networking features created to attract high school and college students as well as alumni, but with the added 
benefit of free web-based SAT and GMAT tutoring. Riding the wave of popular social networking sites like MySpace and 
FaceBook, B4Class.com stands out with this free online support to students taking standardized exams, a feature planned 
for its functionality and ability to add frequency and ?stickiness? to the site?s community. 

A shrewd young entrepreneur who came to Boston in 1999 from Russia, Sofia Loginova is a savvy Quincy High senior who 
managed to juggle schoolwork with raising $200,000 in funding and negotiating licensing rights for advanced internet 
technologies. 

In preliminary talks with area high schools, Loginova received overwhelmingly positive feedback and signed up two high 
schools for participation. She also assembled a board of high school and college students to provide insight on the 
site?s content, design and functionality, particularly in the SAT/GMAT testing area of the website. 

Richard

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From: Larry Seltzer [mailto:Larry () larryseltzer com] 
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:37 PM
To: Richard M. Smith; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] New security threat: Back packs


An 18 year old gave away 2000 custom backpacks to promote a web site?
 
Anyone know what that costs? Richard, is North Quincy as rich as Newton?
 
Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/ <blocked::http://security.eweek.com/> 
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/ <http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry_seltzer/>  
<http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer> 
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 
 

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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:21 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] New security threat: Back packs


http://www.boston.com/news/globe/west/2007/04/update_web_site.html

Monday, April 9, 2007


Update: Web site founder denies involvement in prank


NEWTON

The 18-year-old founder of a new teen social networking site insists that she had nothing to do with four suspicious 
backpacks that prompted the evacuation of a Newton North High School parking lot and a visit from the State Police Bomb 
Squad this morning.

Sofia Loginova, a senior at North Quincy High School, said she first heard about the incident when she was met by a 
Quincy Police officer who questioned her as she arrived at school.

The backpacks bearing the name of her web site -- b4class.com <http://www.b4class.com/Help/aboutus.aspx>  -- were found 
stuffed with shredded newspaper, hanging from a fence on the Walnut Street side of the campus. Loginova said she has 
given away about 2,000 of the promotional backpacks, mostly at Faneuil Hall.

Loginova said she is "horrified" that officials are comparing the incident to a publicity stunt in January that shut 
down roads in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville as authorities investigated nearly 40 small, light-up devices. The 
devices turned out to be part of a guerilla advertising campaign for a Cartoon Network show, "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."

"I don't know who did it and it sucks that my name is being associated with it," she said. "I don't want to be compared 
with that [the Cartoon Network stunt] and its not at all how I want my site to be seen. I completely understand how 
people might feel about it and I feel horrible that this happened. But I don't know how it happened."

Loginova says her site, which went live on Wednesday, has about 500 users. She said she does not have outside marketing 
help, and that she has been relying mostly on word-of-mouth and the bag giveaways to publicize the launch.

-- Ralph Ranalli

Posted by the Boston Globe City & Region Desk at 01:31 PM 
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/west/2007/04/update_web_site.html>  

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