full-disclosure - Re: Pentagon Email Servers Hacked (with the URL this time)

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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:28:32 +1200
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
To: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Pentagon Email Servers Hacked (with the URL
 this time)

Jim Popovitch wrote:

> The US DoD gets hit all the time... not because they are so much
> insecure, but because they are such a primary target.  It's a fact of
> life, just like doctors and nurses are the most vulnerable to contract a
> disease.  There are precautions, and they are taken, but the odds are
> greater.

_AND_ at least they noticed and moved to act against it.

Every day, many hundreds of thousands of _successful_ attacks against 
corporations, small businesses and private individuals not only go 
unreported by them, but entirely undetected and largely unnoticed by 
the _attacked_.

The reason for this comment?  A great many of those mocking the DHS 
over this incident are part of the group just mentioned and are too 
stupid to ever realize it...

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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