Re: Fwd: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-03 Thread Dave Israel
Paul Vixie wrote: > digital security is getting a lot of investor attention right now. i wonder > if this will ever consolidate or if pandora's box is just broken for all time. > It'll consolidate to the point where probabilities and probably costs can be accurately assessed, at which point

Re: Fwd: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-03 Thread Paul Vixie
William Allen Simpson writes: > Are we paying enough attention to securing our systems? almost certainly not. skimming RFC 2196 again just now i find three things. 1. it's out of date and needs a refresh -- yo barb! 2. i'm not doing about half of what it recommends 3. m

Re: Fwd: Dan Kaminsky

2009-07-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: ... Mitnick came out and *said* that he knew the site was insecure, but since no sensitive data was on there, it didn't matter. Presumably the site's monthly cost, convenience, user-interface, and so on, outweigh the effort of occasionally having to recover after

Re: Fwd: Dan Kaminsky

2009-07-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:53:39 BST, "andrew.wallace" said: > The hackers criticized Mitnick and Kaminsky for using insecure > blogging and hosting services to publish their sites, that allowed the > hackers to gain easy access to their data. *yawn*. kiddies whack low-value sites, death of Internet

Re: Fwd: Dan Kaminsky

2009-07-29 Thread Randy Bush
>>> LAS VEGAS — Two noted security professionals were targeted this week >>> by hackers who broke into their web pages, stole personal data and >>> posted it online on the eve of the Black Hat security conference. >> boring. > Two noted security professionals, and Kevin Mitnick, whom no one giv

Re: Fwd: Dan Kaminsky

2009-07-29 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Randy Bush wrote: >> LAS VEGAS — Two noted security professionals were targeted this week >> by hackers who broke into their web pages, stole personal data and >> posted it online on the eve of the Black Hat security conference. >> > > boring. > > randy > > Two noted security profession

Re: Fwd: Dan Kaminsky

2009-07-29 Thread Randy Bush
> LAS VEGAS — Two noted security professionals were targeted this week > by hackers who broke into their web pages, stole personal data and > posted it online on the eve of the Black Hat security conference. boring. randy

Fwd: Dan Kaminsky

2009-07-29 Thread andrew.wallace
-- Forwarded message -- From: andrew.wallace Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:22 PM Subject: Real Black Hats Hack Security Experts on Eve of Conference To: Information Security Mailing List LAS VEGAS — Two noted security professionals were targeted this week by hackers who broke int