Fast Growing Threats

By Jim Carr, SC Magazine
January 2007
Excerpt:
"The CORE IMPACT software, in fact, saved the company's skin recently. Odiorne used it to break into a pair of unpatched servers on loan from a third-party data services firm. The vulnerability had the potential to open valuable corporate data to outsiders who, he says ' would have been able to get data off the box, could have browsed through its directories, or copied files onto a machine.' "











