Actually Mitnick was the first person to clearly be identified as someone
who was raiding the cookie jar, other intrusions probably occurred before
then, but companies were more apt of not making publicized, since the NEWS
medium and Internet were not prime time as in known to the general public.
/m
Ron DuFresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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04/13/00 05:28 PM
To: Dan Hansgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Firewallsl/network protection
Do a web search on mitnick, kevin, he was the first one that is well known
to have snatched suck valuable cookies from the cookie jars of some major
ISP's way back when...
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Dan Hansgen wrote:
>
> I am trying to do some research on setting up connections for an
internet
> site.
>
> The question I have is that I heard some time back that hackers had
accessed
> some credit card information from an internet site. Does anyone
remember
> who the site was and why their configuration allow this to happen? Could
> this have been avoided with a better firewall?
>
> If you can remember who it was, was there follow-up information on what
the
> site did to insure this could not happen again.
>
> Thanks for any information,
>
> Dan Hansgen
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