Plan B
May 3rd, 2008 by Aviram, Filed under: Funny, Corporate Security, Insider Threat
The Daily WTF has a good story that may sound a little too familiar to some:
How the aptly-named Super Hacker had managed to shut down the system remotely and provide a fix so quickly intrigued Kiefer. After poking around the network, he finally found the Python file that contained the Super Hacker’s fix:
#!usr/bin/python
# Paying someone $10 to pull a power cord for $3500
print “(C) [Name Removed] 2008.”
The moral of the story: when all else fails, use social engineering.
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Not very different from iDefense paying people to find vulnerabilities