[Brahms-dev-l] hacking in RCF and your password

From: Hironori Ito <hito@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov>
Date: Thu Nov 03 2005 - 10:12:36 EST
Hello.  Yesterday, there was an another hacking incident to a RCF 
machine by regitimate password of a user.   (This is nothing new. :)  )  
However, there is a disturbing trend from ITD/FBI.  It seems that 
ITD/FBI started to ask RCF to turn over the actual disk of the 
compromised user.  (For example, it would be /brahms/u in our case.)  
This means that if a password of one person is compromised, it will 
affect an entire user (for unkown duration of time untill ITD/FBI is 
satisfied ).  Therefore, to avoid this possible pain, it is quite 
important to keep your machines in your institution/home not to be 
compromised.  

Hiro
_______________________________________________
Brahms-dev-l mailing list
Brahms-dev-l@lists.bnl.gov
http://lists.bnl.gov/mailman/listinfo/brahms-dev-l
Received on Thu Nov 3 10:12:46 2005

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Thu Nov 03 2005 - 10:12:53 EST