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

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From: mastah at phreaker.net (Egoist)
Subject: Things that make you go "Hmmm"

Hello Andreia,

Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 4:51:45 PM, you wrote:

AG> Ooooo, soap opera! Can't wait for the next chapter in the tale of 
AG> "forensics.pivx", the mail server that was! :D

AG> AvG

AG> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:27:18 +0100, Andriy Bilous
AG> <Andriy.Bilous@...re.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I didn't get it... Now you have no mail server and use the open maillist for
>> corporate correspondence? We are waiting impatiently for detailed report how
>> this server was compromised.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jason Coombs [mailto:jasonc@...ence.org]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 5:24 AM
>> To: Mark Remington; 'Burke N. Hare'
>> Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
>> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] 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
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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
>>
AG> _______________________________________________
AG> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
AG> Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html

looks like stupid promotion of pivx
is it?

-- 
Best regards,
 Egoist                            mailto:mastah@...eaker.net