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17 years, 1 month ago
Here's the summary: A lonely teenager looking for bragging rights takes advantage of unpatched, vulnerable versions of SSH to plant a trojan horse to steal usernames and passwords, escalates his priviledges and gains access to valuable information. Eventually his hubris leads him to make a mistake, he gets caught and (well, this part we don't know yet, but let's assume he gets his computer taken away for 10 years or something).
In this case, the young man got Cisco's source code, access to thousands of computers, including US military computers.
Do we:
a. Eliminate lonely teenagers seeking bragging rights?
b. Patch all our applications to protect them from known and unknown vulnerabilities.
c. Get rid of our passwords by using strong authentication?
d. Hope it doesn't happen to us?
If you think that b. is a possible answer, think about the repurcussions and practicality of it.
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