[79550] in North American Network Operators' Group
SORBS Identity theft alert
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Mon Apr 11 02:39:33 2005
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:39:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
See http://www.iadl.org/sorbs/sorbs-story.html
SORBS seems to be collecting a lot of sensitive information to view
listings:
Name:
Preferred Login ID:
Password:
Confirm Password:
Home Phone:
Business Phone:
Mobile Phone:
Email Address:
Company:
Autonomous Systems Number:
Security Question:
Security Answer:
Skill Level: None, I can play games though.
A little, just use them for email.
Average, familiar with them, used at home and work.
A lot, sysadmin or MCSE etc.
My Name is Charles Babbage, or Alan Turing.
Address:
Address:
Town/City:
State/County:
Zipcode/Postcode:
Country:
This detailed information could be sold to IT recruiters, used for
identity theft, password collection, or used for other mass marketing
purposes. Security questions are often used by sensitive sites such as
domain registries to authenticate users who have lost their passwords.
This is very alarming information collection.
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