[plug] AusCert correction

Trevor Phillips phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au
Wed May 24 13:40:03 WST 2000


Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> The stats that David gave us were quite startling. Only a small
> percentage of breakins are reported. An example was "a national military
> organsation" (almost certainly USAF) which tested its own security
> including aggressively scanning 9000 of its own hosts. 19 reports
> eventuated. There are many good reasons for promptly and accurately
> reporting probes and breakins; David really should HTMLify his slideshow
> and add it to the AusCERT site.

I went to the day-long course at Curtin Uni yesterday. ^_^
Maan, talk about making you paranoid! Sure glad I'm shifting heavily to ssh -
I'm not paranoid enough to move to one time passwords though - yet. ^_^

Anyway, we got a hard-copy of the overheads used, and someone asked about an
electronic copy, and the guy responded with a comment about not making it
available due to it being a funds-raising avenue (which they wouldn't get if
they made it freely available).

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