[55282] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3 routing issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Sun Jan 26 13:44:57 2003
From: "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>
To: <lamour@UU.NET>, "Dave Stewart" <dbs@dbscom.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:43:09 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
From: "Michael Lamoureux"
>
> Note that in the case of a worm, a VPN could work against you. If you
> have all the right filters in place at your "perimeter" and yet let
> your employees in through a VPN solution of some sort, you could still
> be screwed if one of their home systems gets infected somehow.
>
>
So what you're saying is that a really good worm could infiltrate any secure
network by targetting those who vpn from exterior sources, collect data, and
then run? Hmmm. Wait a sec. Would that constitute a worm if it had purpose?
Jack Bates
Network Engineer
