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The Spy in Your Server Room
CorinneI writes "Your business's private information may not be as safe as you think — especially when you take into account how many people pass through your office's revolving door on a daily basis. That's why many companies hire TraceSecurity employees to test the security of their systems — operations that usually involve TraceSecurity personnel talking their way into offices in order to gain access to server rooms and sensitive customer information. PC Magazine was invited along to cover a recent TraceSecurity operation."
Is this an ad or an article?
-- Prem
Aiming to tweet on a rice
This summary could have conveyed all the necessary information quite easily and been just as valid by replacing "TraceSecurity" with the more generic "penetration testing company". Enjoy your plug guys!
If you have trade secrets on your web server, the spy is the least of your problems.
OK, bad joke, I know we're talking about the file server here, but why would a spy be in the server room? Wouldn't he be a lot less notcable logging in from an empty office? Or better yet, an empty office whose owner has just left his machine for the rest room?
What do you mean, RTFA? This is slashdot, we don't need no FAs!
-mcgrew
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Old con, it shows how trusting people can be, but shouldn't.
They managed to walk right into the front page of Slashdot with no resistance whatsoever.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
The article is ok... but the movie adaptation is a thrill ride!
I don't need large brains to have a good time.
This article was a complete waste of time. No details were layed out for us; my favorite was when they said they "could have" plugged in a wireless access point to the server rack. Without actually trying it, they didn't prove dick....for all we know their network may not have allowed unknown MAC addresses. It was all a bunch of "we could have" done this, or "could have" done that. Just do it for god's sake! Just walking into the server room and putting stickers on a server doesn't prove that you actually could have walked off with it. Just saying that you "could have" disabled the alarm system doesn't really mean that you wouldn't have caught someone's attention.
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
Penetration testers doing their job: Film at 11.
Seriously, while it's not an entirely bad article on a penetration test, this is nothing but a shameless plug.
Never attribute to malice what can as easily be the result of incompetence...
first server room access should be limited to a very short list. and nobody on that list should be so underpaid they would stupidly let someone in there without at least 2 sets of eyes on them.
All they prove is that IT departments are not only underpaid but under staffed.
the second thing they prove is that the security staff is also underpaid and understaffed. Sorry but my first shot is to ask what company they are from, then google it to find the phone number. I never call the number given by the person or on their badge or paperwork.
There are lots of other ways. also you don't need access to the server room to install a rogue AP and gain a wireless cracking point. one hidden nicely under the a desk on the 2nd floor corner office is a better place.
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Actually we use the insecure proximity cards for access. but we also have motion sensors in the server room that set off a blinking light in the IT offices whenever someone is in the room. when we see the blinky most of us usually flip over to look at the plasma on the wall showing the camera or we simply connect to one of the axis cameras in the room and sww what is up.
If it's not one of the 5 people that are allowed in there. Call security and have them meet you at the door.
really simple. but it's money spent that is better spent on an executives custom desk or office remodel.
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When you say you refuse to allow advertising masquerading as articles, I believe that's your intention, but really - what else is this?
[FUCK BETA]
So by placing the CD-ROM in a computer, it will automatically hack what ever OS the computer is running and auto install your software? Or are you implying that this company left server consoles logged in as an admin user?
I call major bullshit on this article. There's some real iffy stuff here as pointed out by other
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Slashvertisement, in its most distilled form. I guess the "editorship" here wrenched their shoulders after patting themselves on the back during their tenth anniversary. So much for integrity.
Seriously, even though I know all too well how running something like slashdot is a lot harder than it looks, and how not everyone can be satisfied, and how quality sometimes has to come after candor, even after all that, I know deep down I actually could start something better than this dreck. But frankly, "social links" and blog aggregators are already out there, and I won't pour my money down the hole of recreating reddit, digg, or technorati.
This article shows precisely how slashdot is not only not journalism, it's not even a respectable blog. Slashdot occupies the medium precisely inbetween, known colloquially as "The Worst of Both Worlds." You should be ashamed . But I know you aren't.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
For most companies, physical penetration testing is next to useless. Why? Because management expects IT and employees to act as security guards. IT is the gatekeeper of your ditial information, not your physical hardware. If you want a physically secure facility, hire security personnel. Tailgating can be easily solved by having security guards present at each key card entrance, forcing each person to badge in. Otherwise, it is just a show put on by management to get funding for more security toys. David
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