PaulDotCom Security Weekly - Episode 24 - April 20, 2006
Live from the PaulDotCom Security Weekly Studio....
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Hosts: Larry Pesce, Paul Asadoorian, "Twitchy"
Email: psw@pauldotcom.com
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Comments
Trivia:
$5000
From: http://www.phillipsnizer.com/library/cases/lib_case35.cfm
Posted by: Ben | April 21, 2006 12:11 PM
The magic number is $5,000. It's very familiar to incident handlers and forensic investigators :-)
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 USC 1030):
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/1030_new.html
Posted by: Raul Siles | April 21, 2006 01:14 PM
Citing from here:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001030----000-.html
(i) loss to 1 or more persons during any 1-year period (and, for purposes of an investigation, prosecution, or other proceeding brought by the United States only, loss resulting from a related course of conduct affecting 1 or more other protected computers) aggregating at least $5,000 in value;
again: $5,000
Posted by: Attila-Mihaly Balazs | April 21, 2006 07:51 PM
I just wanted to add that you'r doing a great show :)
Posted by: Attila-Mihaly Balazs | April 21, 2006 07:51 PM
The answer to the question of the week is $5000 USD.
Src: http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001030----000-.html
Posted by: Fred | April 22, 2006 04:12 AM
In this episode you kept talking about sniffing traffic and that this was totally undetectable. However that is not entirely true. As far back as 2001 I was working on some of the various sniffer detection techniques, and doing a simple google search for "sniffer detection" will present you with documentation and tools for detecting sniffers on your network.
Just thought I'd letcha know
Posted by: Dan Kuykendall | April 23, 2006 11:50 AM
You've mentioned Forensics being a hot topic at Educause - I thought I'd add a link to the SANS forensics track description. http://www.sans.org/sansfire06/description.php?tid=205
I'm looking forward to attending this track at an upcoming SANS .EDU session in Missouri.
Regards,
SW
Posted by: SideWynder | May 1, 2006 09:46 PM