Even you can be hacked

Thu Jun 10 18:47:32 UTC 2004

Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:

>Even if the water company is sending me 85% TriChlorEthane?

>Right.  Got it.  The victim is always responsible.

>There you have it folks.

Ok.
Being resposible as network manager, if I think something is strange and I nor my staff
can fix it. I call for help. Either Vendor support, a good consultant, or community help.

In many cases the Victim always has some portion of responsibilty.

If I leave a Windows 2000 server SP 0 no security fixes on my network, get it hacked and have
a lawsuit cause XYZ company caught a hacker attack from it.... who is the Victim? who is responsible?
This may be exactly what that guy did....

I think Sean sent out the California law reference last year that said the VICTIM of a security
breach must report it to their customers... 

I think we have alot of operational issues that we must look at here..
What do we do?
Many AUP's I have seen would have shut down that customer, if someone complained.....

Does this mean if we go to a for profit bandwidth charge system that we let people destroy others with the worms
they have for money we would get chargeing for the worm attack?

Jim