[IP] more on Chinese hackers
Begin forwarded message:
From: Brett Glass <brett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 27, 2005 6:18:50 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Chinese hackers
At 05:47 PM 11/25/2005, eekid@xxxxxxx wrote:
Mr. Farber,
I work for the DOD and nmapping by employees happens fairly often.
To my knowledge, I'm not aware of anyone receiving a phone call or
an email, much less armed encounters. : )
Depending on where a person works, there is a DOD "NETWORK SECURITY
STAND-DOWN" either approaching or it has already passed.
http://www.usmc.mil/maradmins/maradmin2000.nsf/
0/6a9ba6bbe69dac91852570ba0080ccc9?OpenDocument
https://infosec.navy.mil/ps/?t=main/main.tag&bc=main/bc_main.html
What's truly interesting is that the second of these links also
mentions the distribution of Symantec's Norton antivirus software
within the DoD. This implies that the DoD is using Windows systems
which run the Symantec software. Given that Windows is infamously
insecure (with new security holes surfacing weekly) and Symantec has
announced that there are security holes that it will not close
(austensibly to allow the government to snoop on users, but hackers
can of course use the same holes), is it any wonder that there are
problems?
--Brett Glass
"If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the
first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization." --Gerald
P. Weinberg
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