RE: Oracle Security Blasted
- From: "Kennedy, Jim" <jim_kennedy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <stellr@xxxxxxxxxx>, "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:11:44 -0700
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ray Stell
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:03 AM
To: oracle-l
Subject: Re: Oracle Security Blasted
<snip for brevity only>
I attended a security meeting a few years ago with a security expert.
Quite fasinating. His main point is that defense must be multi layered
and each thing must be able to fend on its own. Also concentrate your
efforts in defending that part of your business that if hacked tomorrow
would cause the public to never use you again.
His question was If you run an airline what electronic system that if
breached and tampered with would probably destory your airline? (think
about it I'll give you his answer at the bottom.) This guy had helped
local law enforcement and FBI to apprehend child pornographers. At the
time the FBI were not very internet savvy, I am sure they are much more
so now.
One day he gets a call from the local police to come to his son's
school. (His son at the time was about 8 years old.) The officer, whom
he he knew and had worked with in the past declined to say why. The
officer assured him everything was fine, but that he needed to come to
school. He got there and noticed an ambulace outside and a couple of
police cars. He went into his son's class room where his son was, the
officer, and his son's teacher. The teacher was visibly upset. He
talked to his son and and the police officer and found out that as his
son was walking past a corner outside a man came up behind him (he was
hiding behind the corner and the son had passed him) and grabbed him.
He had lifted him off the ground, and covered his mouth with his hand.
His son grabbed the man's pinky with his left hand and his index finger
with his right hand. He proceeded to pull down and out and at the same
time kicked his heels into the top of the man's knee caps. (pushing them
down) The left hand broke, and the knee caps dislodged. The man dropped
the boy and the boy ran for help. The man had a broken hand and could
not walk - hence the ambulance.
Yes, the man had been a child pornographer and had gotten out of prison.
Moral of the story: Make sure what is important to you can protect
itself.
Oh yes, what is probably the most important system in an airline
business? Probably the system that holds all the loading and balances
for varios classes of planes.
Jim
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