------------------------------ From: Various Subject: From the Mailbag Date: 9 June, 1991 ******************************************************************** *** CuD #3.20: File 2 of 7: From the Mailbag *** ******************************************************************** From: mpd@ANOMALY.SBS.COM(Michael P. Deignan) Subject: Re: Dutch Crackers as opposed to Graham Crackers Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 00:34:29 GMT >The techniques they've >used have been simple, well-known and uncreative, and they've found >the job an easy one, say sources. "These are not skilled computer >geniuses like Robert Morris," said Cliff Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's >Egg, who said he's been in contact with some Dutch crackers who may >have committed the break-ins. "These are more like the kind of hacker >I caught, sort of plodding, boring people." Stoll's 1989 book >concerned his pursuit of a cracker. Many times, this is the result of sloppy system administration. Recently, one site I FTP'd into had the contents of /etc/passwd readable by any FTP user. Makes you wonder about the rest of their system security... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: Visualize Whirled Peas Subject: Article on Kevin Poulsen arrest Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 20:18:29 PDT (The following is a bit old, but some may have missed it first time around): "Acting on a tip from an "associate" of the 25 year old computer hacker, Pacific Bell investigator Terry Atchley was staking out the market (grocery store). He'd warned employees on the night shift that Poulsen wanted by the FBI, might show up. When Poulsen, with bleached hair and dressed in black jeans, t-shirt and leather jacket walked in, packing clerk Dave Hernandez seized the slender 5-foor-8 suspect and bear-hugged dim until Atchley handcuffed him." Now when the hell did Pac Bell get granted arrest powers, including Deputizing 'packing clerks'....??? The rest of the article (Knight Ridder News Service) goes on to sensationalize the case. Also arrested was Mark K Lottor who evidently was him roomate... ******************************************************************** >> END OF THIS FILE << ***************************************************************************