[13460] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Library Computer Hacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Lester)
Mon Aug 7 20:03:14 2000
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 19:56:28 -0600
From: Dan Lester <dan@RIVEROFDATA.COM>
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Reply-To: Dan Lester <dan@riverofdata.com>
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Friday, August 04, 2000, 7:02:35 AM, you wrote:
DMR> After all these years, we are finally going to put our library catalog on
DMR> the web. That will, of course, mean changes to some of routines --
DMR> particularly in regard to network security. I suspect that some of my
DMR> colleagues will not agree with my assessment but I believe that libraries
DMR> are just as vulnerable to hacking as any other organization and should
DMR> therefore be as vigorously protected as possible.
Certainly you could be hacked. No, libraries aren't a likely
"target" like political, governmental, or military sites.
However, they certainly can be attacked. A system that I
participate in managing was hacked last year. No damage was done,
but a different telnet daemon was installed that was sniffing
passwords. As far as our security experts can tell, no damage was
done and nothing was compromised. Naturally, we required all
users to change passwords immediately.
cheers
dan
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Dan Lester, Data Wrangler dan@RiverOfData.com
3577 East Pecan, Boise, Idaho 83716-7115 USA
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