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Internet security

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:07 pm
by spot
The Pentagon has invited external experts to hack into its systems in the first such test of its cybersecurity measures.

Pentagon invites hackers in and backs encryption - BBC News



Why would the Pentagon do that when they could just ask the NSA to have a go? Does the Pentagon not think they'd be told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth by the NSA?

Should anyone want to help them out, they're at www.pentagon.mil

Internet security

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:14 pm
by Bryn Mawr
spot;1493310 wrote: The Pentagon has invited external experts to hack into its systems in the first such test of its cybersecurity measures.

Pentagon invites hackers in and backs encryption - BBC News



Why would the Pentagon do that when they could just ask the NSA to have a go? Does the Pentagon not think they'd be told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth by the NSA?

Should anyone want to help them out, they're at United States Department of Defense


They've also announced a server side vulnerability using SSLv2 as an access route :-

'Thousands of popular sites' at risk of Drown hack attacks - BBC News

I've checked ForumGarden and it comes out clean but, apparently, those of us still using POP3 for e-mail could be at risk.

Internet security

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 3:47 pm
by spot
Bryn Mawr;1493312 wrote: those of us still using POP3 for e-mail could be at risk.Overcomplicated, PHP for email. So are clients.

echo "This is how email should be sent" | sendmail -s "Pay attention! Clients are top-heavy" fg@forumgarden.com