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Ethical Hacking Discussions and Related Certifications => Malware => Topic started by: pjayes on June 07, 2008, 09:34:41 PM

Title: has anyone heard of this?
Post by: pjayes on June 07, 2008, 09:34:41 PM

i was just reading about this. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=974978361&rid=-144

Title: Re: has anyone heard of this?
Post by: eth3real on June 07, 2008, 10:47:07 PM

I've heard of attackers breaking into misconfigured firewalls and causing a denial of service until the victim paid a ransom.

I'm sure if either one happened to a business, they would be forced to pay the ransom, since a company can't just stop working.

Thanks for the heads up. :)

Title: Re: has anyone heard of this?
Post by: g00d_4sh on June 10, 2008, 04:33:34 PM

Anyone ever used Hjetter... or just a web interface to give a printer on a network the same IP as the default gateway? Had that happen once, cracked me up when I found it. Setting the meager security measures on a printer can be helpful in negating that.