Thu, 31 Jul 2008
More SF "Hacker" Stuff
Infoworld continues to have the best information on the Terry Childs case (new article)
(page 3) entering the VPN information into the court records made them public -- the San Francisco district attorney's office committed a significant security breach, opening up VPN access to anyone who cared to look at the document. Although the passwords alone were not enough to provide complete access to the city networks, they did constitute one part of the VPN's two-phase authentication configuration.And then later on the same page:
Nearly two days after the DA's office divulged these passwords to the public, DTIS changed all the passwords, locking everyone out of the city VPN services until they had reconfigured their client to the new passwords. Ironically, this was the first time the city network failed since Childs' arrest.
... there's more to read here ...
31 Jul 15:34 | /rants_and_raves | 0 comment(s)
Out at Training
I know some of you have been missing my online musings as of late. I've been in San Jose at a Cisco phone training course. And fortunately, I've been able to stay at Cory's pad in MV to make it a 5 min commute to the training center. Plus staying in MV lets me live "the South Bay lifestyle"-- ie shorts and flip-flops (as opposed to the jackets needed in the SF "summer"). Anyway, I thought you'd like to see what I was learning in the course. This video will explain it: Yes, basically I'm learning to fight dinosaurs. 31 Jul 13:25 | /tech | 1 comment(s)
