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On Doomsaying (Terry Childs case)

2008-07-24 12:48:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Terry Childs that :-) Even though some people still think that he is a good guy (more on that on Slashdot What also caught my attention is that some retard called his bail ($5m) "ridiculously high." Well, if he was an outside hacker, say a Romanian script kiddie, jailed for hacking SF network, would they release him for $5m? Maybe not! Now,...
 
Tags: terry childs, access, business, dumb, security vendor propaganda, romanian script kiddie, guy, common sense, people
 
 
 
 
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Admins , Good Guys or "I am NOT an Idiot!"

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2008-07-29 15:19:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...Terry Childs case) ") and this (" So ... Am I? Maybe I Am! "), both related to Terry Child case, as well as a response to this post by Paul Venezia ( "The anti-admin stance and the Childs case First, let me disclose something - my frantic efforts with the Paint allow me to proudly proclaim: I am a certified, trusted "Good Guy Good guys, let...
 
Tags: terry childs, childs, guys, admins, terry childs story, bad boss, boss, underneath management, management
 
 
 
 
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Monthly Blog Round-Up - July 2008

2008-08-01 16:38:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Terry Childs saga. Namely, " On Doomsaying (Terry Childs case) ", " So ... Am I? Maybe I Am! " and " Admins , Good Guys or "I am NOT an Idiot Obviously, my earlier post/rant called " You Are "A Security Idiot" If ... " takes the #2 spot. Yes, we all like to point out other people's problems, especially when they are epically huge Next up is...
 
Tags: monthly blog round-up, blog, blog round-up, monthly, posts, popular posts, popular, people, security
 
 
 
 
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Monthly Blog Round-Up - August 2008

2008-09-04 12:22:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Terry Childs saga. Namely, " On Doomsaying (Terry Childs case) ", " So ... Am I? Maybe I Am! " and " Admins , Good Guys or "I am NOT an Idiot Somewhat predictably, PCI compliance is all the rage again with 1.2 coming out soon . So, MUST-DO Logging for PCI? post was again propelled to a place in my monthly Top5 list. It discusses the fact that...
 
Tags: monthly blog round-up, blog, blog round-up, monthly, security, log security poll, poll, popular post, post
 
 
 
 
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CISSP

2007-09-05 14:08:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...Terry Pratchett writes amazing stories with some deep concepts. One word he created (or at least a Witch of his Disk World created) is headology . Basically, a witch will never be caught without her hat because once the hat is on anything the witch does, magic or not, will be seen to have been done through the use of magic I believe the...
 
Tags: information security professional, information security, security, cissp, security bloggers network, security people, sums, brother andy sums, terry pratchett writes
 
 
 
 
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$160 Billion Robotic Army Network Passes First Big Test. Kinda.

2008-04-30 04:00:00 by David Axe in Wired Security
 
...Terry says This is a big deal for joint fires, Army spokesman Paul Mehney told Wired.com Joint fires is mil-speak for getting all the military services to share info and coordinate their attacks. That kind of teamwork is a big factor in the U.S. militarys combat prowess. And if FCS works out as planned, the five U.S. military branches will...
 
Tags: fcs network devices, fcs, network, fcs network hardware, test, radios, network radios, army, fcs coffers
 
 
 
 
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How to Protect Your Network from Rogue IT Employees

2008-07-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472b5c in Network World on Security
 
Terry Childs, a network administrator for the City of San Francisco is accused of creating a super-password on the switches and routers in the city's Fibre WAN and using it to block everyone else's access to administrative functions. According to reports, Childs had been detected tampering with the network and had reacted with hostility when...
 
Tags: network, terry childs, network administrator, childs, city, fibre wan, administrative functions, san francisco, super-password
 
 
 
 
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Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue

2008-07-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473438 in Network World on Security
 
...Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering. He remains in jail, held on $5 million bail. News reports have depicted a rogue admin taking a network hostage for reasons unknown, but new information from a source close to the...
 
Tags: san francisco, terry childs, network administrator, network hostage, rogue admin, reasons unknown, news reports, source close, million bail
 
 
 
 
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Who Pays?

2008-07-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x84739a8 in Network World on Security
 
What do you do when a network administrator goes bad? That's the question IT staffers for the city of San Francisco are facing this week. One of their own, a net admin named Terry Childs, was arrested for sabotaging the city government's new fiber backbone network (see story
 
Tags: fiber backbone network, city government, city, network administrator, san francisco, staffers, story, week, question