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RE: Even you can be hacked
From: "McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett () msmgmt com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:47:32 -0400
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
Even if the water company is sending me 85% TriChlorEthane?
Right. Got it. The victim is always responsible.
There you have it folks.
Ok. Being resposible as network manager, if I think something is strange and I nor my staff can fix it. I call for help. Either Vendor support, a good consultant, or community help. In many cases the Victim always has some portion of responsibilty. If I leave a Windows 2000 server SP 0 no security fixes on my network, get it hacked and have a lawsuit cause XYZ company caught a hacker attack from it.... who is the Victim? who is responsible? This may be exactly what that guy did.... I think Sean sent out the California law reference last year that said the VICTIM of a security breach must report it to their customers... I think we have alot of operational issues that we must look at here.. What do we do? Many AUP's I have seen would have shut down that customer, if someone complained..... Does this mean if we go to a for profit bandwidth charge system that we let people destroy others with the worms they have for money we would get chargeing for the worm attack? Jim
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- Re: Even you can be hacked, (continued)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Alex Rubenstein (Jun 10)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Owen DeLong (Jun 10)
- Re: Even you can be hacked james edwards (Jun 10)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Jeff Kell (Jun 10)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Wayne E. Bouchard (Jun 10)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Adam Debus (Jun 10)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Randy Bush (Jun 10)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Alex Rubenstein (Jun 10)
- Re: Even you can be hacked James Reid (Jun 11)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Owen DeLong (Jun 11)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Stephen Sprunk (Jun 11)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Owen DeLong (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked McBurnett, Jim (Jun 10)
- Re: Even you can be hacked dunger-nanog1087 (Jun 10)
- RE: Even you can be hacked David Schwartz (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Adi Linden (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Randy Bush (Jun 11)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Steven M. Bellovin (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Alex Bligh (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Henry Linneweh (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Randy Bush (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Adi Linden (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked David Schwartz (Jun 11)
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