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Security Test Prompts Federal Fraud Alert

Posted by Soulskill on from the in-the-not-so-wild dept.

itwbennett writes "Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute, took great interest in a National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) warning issued earlier this week, thinking, 'Finally this is in the wild, because I've only seen it in pen tests before.' Unfortunately for Mr. Ullrich, the letter and 2 CDs that caused the kerfuffle were part of a sanctioned security test of a bank's computer systems conducted by Ohio-based security company MicroSolved. 'It was a part of some social engineering we were doing in a fully sanctioned penetration test,' said MicroSolved CEO Brent Huston. For his part, NCUA spokesman John McKechnie did not have much to say about his organization's alert, except that 'at this point, it appears that this is an isolated event.'"

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  1. Frosty piss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. i just got off the toilet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i shit out an obama.

    plop!

    btw... teddy? so long you fucking shit head pig. even nero was famous as a politician.

  3. Re:Johannes Ullrich? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I find it sad that when you thought of Lars Ulrich and thus Metallica, that St. Anger comes to mind. Metallica died with Cliff.....

  4. Re:Johannes Ullrich? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I find it sad that you know that much about Metallica.