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From: robert.portvliet at gmail.com (Robert Portvliet)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:34:11 -0400
Actually my favourite quotes from that article are: #1 "It turned out that Goldenberg, who was rapidly promoted to vice president before his March 2008 arrest, had used his knowledge of her and her family ?* including pet names and children's birth dates *? to guess e-mail passwords." #2 "Our business has been changed forever," Suttenberg said. "*Customers that used to trust us with information are now afraid to tell us anything for fear of being compromised."* If you're using the things described in #1 for passwords you're going to end up with a lot of #2.... ;) On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
This article shows the power of doing social media and meta data reconnaissance on your company/clients. If a sales exec can guess passwords then hackers should be able to. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gZwj2Dea2skHEQ9tImHyTgDhacOAD992J1T00 One line that stands out for me is: "The victims estimate he cost them more than $10 million in lost business and security-improvement expenses." Because of his nasty hacking they had to spend money on security improvements. Robin _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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