full-disclosure - Things that make you go "Hmmm"

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

From: jasonc at science.org (Jason Coombs)
Subject: Things that make you go "Hmmm"

Mark, your story is convenient. It also does not match the statements of others at PivX who also claim to be involved in responding to this incident.

According to an e-mail that I received earlier today, ?The forensics.pivx.com mail server was trashed.?

PivX corporate counsel contacted me with the following query:

?Why did you change the password on our server??

Then I received a follow-up from PivX counsel after I denied doing any such thing:

?Our forensics server had the password changed so I figured it was you!?

The conclusion was thus:

?Don't worry about the server. It is being re-imaged.?

This makes me go Hmmm...

Sincerely,

Jason Coombs
jasonc@...ence.org

-----Original Message-----
From: "Mark Remington" <mremington@...eatfocus.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:07:04 
To:"'Jason Coombs'" <jasonc@...ence.org>,       "'Burke N. Hare'" <bounce@...odeus.yi.org>
Cc:full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Things that make you go "Hmmm"

All,

This box was not taken down by any hacker, or owned, it was taken down by my
sys admins at PivX for maintenance.  Forensics is a division of PivX and we
manage that server.  There's patching that needs to happen, so we took it
down.  

Sorry for any chatter about this today.  Obviously, there's some
mis-communication here.  Hopefully this clears it all up.  

Mark Remington
VP Operations
PivX Solutions

> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.netsys.com 
> [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf 
> Of Jason Coombs
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:06 PM
> To: Burke N. Hare
> Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Things that make you go "Hmmm"
> 
> 
> And whomever it was that just owned the forensics.PivX.com 
> linux box, that wasn't a very nice thing to do...
> 
> You should apologize.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jason Coombs
> jasonc@...ence.org _______________________________________________
> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
> Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
> 

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html