Nice stories so far. Here's mine. I worked for a large mainframe software company in the late 90's. We were tracking Internet usage using a proxy-based server. One late Friday, we saw an IP address start hitting all kinds of pr0n sites, one right after another. Downloading picture after picture after picture. It was incredible. And it was eating all our bandwidth. My boss decided a heavy handed approach was required and told me to track down who was using that IP address. We looked through the DHCP server and found the host name and tracked it back to... a girl. Well, she *was* a little manly. Stranger things have happened. So he called her and read the riot act to this senior director of finance. Holy mackerel! The back lash was fierce! I thought the whole IT department was going to get whacked. It turns out she does *not* swing that way. She was using PPTP to connect from home. Apparently the real pr0n addict had just jumped off. But since it was a Windows PPTP server, the time/date stamp didn't indicate how recently she had picked up the IP.
And *that* is how I decided that security was a lot more fun than replacing the occasional broken mouse or re-formating hard drives. Dan On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Paul Asadoorian <[email protected]>wrote: > All: > > I'd like to start a new thread where we all share our experiences on how > we got into computer security. Specifically I want to hear about people > whose boxes got hacked, and sparked a life-long career in infosec. > > I may use your story in an upcoming piece I am working on, if I do I > will contact you off-list for permission and such. > > Larry, I know you got a good story here ;) > > Thanks! > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > Paul Asadoorian > PaulDotCom Enterprises > Web: http://pauldotcom.com > Phone: 401.829.9552 > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > -- Dan McGinn-Combs, Security+, GSEC, CISSP, CISA [email protected] Grand Central: +1 404 492 7532 Peachtree City, Georgia USA
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