Re: My home state, making me proud from afar.....

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 4/1/06, Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
> Dude VanWinkle wrote:
>
> > Goldberg declined to elaborate on what that unusual activity was.
> >
> > -----------------
> >
> > Maybe them sucking SSN's out of the DB? That counts as "unusual traffic" right?
>
>
> Based on recent events, I'd say that "sucking SSNs out of the DB" is
> increasingly _expected_ traffic, particularly if the operator of the DB
> should have been expected to know/do better than allow such
> unauthorized "sucking"...     8-)

I would be willing to bet cash it was a internet facing
peoplesoft/oracle app that got owned

-JP

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