RSSCalif. Web Shutdown Could Have Been Avoided
By Ed Oswald | Published October 4, 2007, 3:59 PM
Security software firm Sunbelt said Thursday that it had attempted to warn California officials of a hack on one of its sites long before the state shut ca.gov down entirely.
In a post to the company Web log Wednesday, Sunbelt's Alex Eckelberry said the company had warned the state as early as September 11, but the government ignored its warnings,
According to an article in the Marin Independent Journal, the Marin County government -- whose site had been hacked -- didn't believe the e-mail warnings it was receiving from security firms, thinking they were phishing attacks.
However, the firm said it had also left voicemails with the government, which would have verified the reports they were receiving via e-mail.
The hack was directing people on the site to phishing sites filled with malware and pornography. Several of the e-mails also included examples, but they never reached those who could do anything about it.
On Wednesday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered a complete shutdown of the state's entire Web site as well as e-mail systems while the hack was fixed. Eckelberry said this was not necessary, considering it only affected one site.
However, he had a message for people who receive these warnings. "It's a wake up call: Keep your site clean," he wrote. "And for pete's sake, please heed the warnings of security researchers when they send you email."
I wonder if after all this, Arnie himself went down to the IT department and said:
"You are TERMINATED!!"
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Would one of these two goats just eat the other and get this over with??? I'm sick of waiting on the bridge.
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weee. gotta love bad HTML coding. amazing what one little missed / can do
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The Mafia ain't too happy about this....
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Please close the italic tag :D
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Ed, please start looking at your articles after you post them.
Please...
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lol, even the right Headlines show in italic
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I think the italic issue has overwhelmed the news itself haha!
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Oh goody. The fool is back.
Huzzah!
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PC_Tool has a point here... Proof check!
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lol
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you are a turd, a lifeless turd, go back to the cave where you came from. loser
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