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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 04:07 PM EDT |
What puzzled me was that the panic response was said to be
invoked by the CIO. It would have been bad enough, but still
understandable had he used Nuke'n'Boot to reimage -all-
systems on his patch. Of course it's a reflection on higher
management that they didn't define the CIO requirements to HR.
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Authored by: Marc Mengel on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 05:00 PM EDT |
I actually read an article
a while back about some folks that broke into a site
by
planting extra USB hardware inside a mouse (i.e. USB drive,
fake keyboard,
etc.) such that the mouse could, when it had
been inactive for a few hours,
reboot the computer and tell
it to boot off of the (included) USB drive; at
which point
they had a live system inside the firewall to call out and
get
them a foot in the door to break in.
So this mode of attack is known, has
been done before, and
is not beyond the realm of possibility.
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