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Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Wheeler)
Thu Feb 2 19:35:28 2012
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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 19:34:37 -0500
From: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> So what part of VRSN got broken into? =A0They do a lot more than just DNS=
.
Indeed, VeriSign owns Illuminet, who are mission-critical for POTS.
Illuminet is also in the business of recording telephone calls, SMS
messages, etc. for law enforcement.
That means that a "breach" at "VeriSign" could be nothing, or it could
give bad guys access to a lot more than any breach or leak reported to
date. Who knows?
--=20
Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
Sr Network Operator=A0 /=A0 Innovative Network Concepts
