Article View: comp.security.misc
Article #543Re: Two hackers caught tapping into Boeing, federal computers
From: Adam Shostack
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:22
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:22
22 lines
1486 bytes
1486 bytes
In article <1992Nov12.142251.9131@hubcap.clemson.edu> stehman%citron.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes: >From article <1992Nov12.084549.5128@unix.brighton.ac.uk>, by ddv@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Domenico De Vitto): >> Any org. that has a _root_ password in _a_ dictionary gets all it deserves. >Would you like to require people to read c.s.m for a couple of months before >they're allowed to purchase a computer? No, I'd like too see vendors ship a decent version of password, say npasswd. I'd also like to see a two-three page readme on securing your workstation, and some slightly tougher defaults, like not putting that "+" in Sun's /etc/hosts. Closing a few simple holes probably makes an awful lot of difference. Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu What a terrible thing to have lost one's .sig. Or not to have a .sig at all because of elections. How true that is.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1992Nov13.172230.3045@das.harvard.edu>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!emory!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!endor!adamReferences:
<1992Nov12.084549.5128@unix.brighton.ac.uk> <1992Nov12.142251.9131@hubcap.clemson.edu>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!emory!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!endor!adam From: adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: Two hackers caught tapping into Boeing, federal computers Message-ID: <1992Nov13.172230.3045@das.harvard.edu> Date: 13 Nov 92 17:22:30 GMT Article-I.D.: das.1992Nov13.172230.3045 References: <1992Nov12.084549.5128@unix.brighton.ac.uk> <1992Nov12.142251.9131@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News) Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University Lines: 22