Mitnick to help protect banks

[xarries]

Originally posted here by Egaladeist
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/45039.html
Technology News: Security : Anti-Phishing Firm Hires Infamous Hacker

"For banks and other e-tailers, phishing is a primary concern. I've tested The 41st Parameter's technology and I found that most phishers will become extremely frustrated because of the difficulty of impersonating a legitimate customer," Mitnick said. "Given enough time, effort, and resources, any system can be broken, but the effort to break this technology is too time consuming."

" Mitnick said. "Given enough time, effort, and resources, any system can be broken, but the effort to break this technology is too time consuming."

That's very un-mitnick-ish if you know what I mean, he even said himself: "every time some [developer] says, 'nobody would go to the trouble of doing that', there's some kid in finland who will go to the trouble. And not just in finland but in america, as well". The fact that they quote him on saying that is very odd, because either he is downright lying to the corporation he's working for, has lost it, or they are missquoting him.

This needs to be investigated further, it's very strange, but then again it may be exactly like a hacker to do this if he's not liable.

[catch]

ROTFL. Lockdown.exe indeed.

"Lockdown.exe can failed to run. Error: Cannot locate accepted-appeal.dll"

I was actually refering to this:

http://news.com.com/Vandals+deface+e..._3-984084.html

Where apparently neither he, nor anyone working for him could figure out how to apply lockdown.exe. For those of you unfamiliar with lockdown.exe:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../locktool.mspx

This tool should take, at the very very most two minutes to install, even on your very first time. Basically it is like three sections of click on the bubble you want, how on earth this could take "a couple of hours" is beyond me.

cheers,

catch

[zencoder]

Originally posted here by catch
I was actually refering to this:

http://news.com.com/Vandals+deface+e..._3-984084.html

Where apparently neither he, nor anyone working for him could figure out how to apply lockdown.exe. For those of you unfamiliar with lockdown.exe:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../locktool.mspx

This tool should take, at the very very most two minutes to install, even on your very first time. Basically it is like three sections of click on the bubble you want, how on earth this could take "a couple of hours" is beyond me.

cheers,

catch

That makes the real story even funnier! Thanks catch.