full-disclosure - Re: Apparently eEye's blog got p0wnd

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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:23:17 -0500
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@...allas.edu>
To: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Apparently eEye's blog got p0wnd

--On Monday, April 23, 2007 05:00:49 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:46:41 CDT, Paul Schmehl said:
>
>> --On April 22, 2007 10:45:17 AM +0200 poo <skodliv@...il.com> wrote:
>> > or maybe ross retard got his login info owned
>
>> Why take the whole site down then?  All you'd have to do is disable his
>> account.
>
> Umm? Maybe for some real *basic* security reason?  For instance, doing
> forensics or making *sure* that Ross was the only pwnage, and that it
> wasn't anything more serious?
>
> So tell me Paul - if *your* password got pwned, would you take the machine
> down, or not? :)

If *mine* got pwned, I'd take the machine down, but if an unprivileged user 
got pwned, I'd simply have them change their password, *unless* there was 
evidence of problems on that host.  Just because someone's account got 
hijacked doesn't mean that further damage necessarily happened.  Lots of 
people have no access to anything except their own stuff.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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