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Dear ZA-HackList Subscribers
I have received the following questionnaire. Some of you might wish to
complete it.
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Caliburn
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From: Kim Gilmour <kimg@strategic.com.au>
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Subject: system security story
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:42:06 +1100
Hi hackers...
I'm Kim Gilmour, a journalist at an Australian magazine for IT executives
called MIS Australia (<http://www.strategic.com.au/>www.strategic.com.au).
MIS (Managing Information Strategies) mag is researching a feature article
in which Australian information technology managers get to pose those
questions they've always been itching to ask to hackers. (I just looked up a
few sites on the web getting hackers' email addresses and found your one
thru altavista...)
The following questions represent the most frequently asked - or just plain
interesting - questions posed by IT managers... If you want to get involved,
please feel free to answer all or some of the questions - depending on your
area of expertise.
Responses will be printed anonymously, by nickname or real name if preferred
- just indicate either way. Any sample hacking exploits would also be
interesting. If you give us your address we can send you a copy of the
article once it comes out.
Although we especially want your input, please feel free to also bounce this
onto any other hackers you think may have some interesting input. The more
responses we get, the better! Where responses vary, we may, depending on how
many we get, be able to publish a table.
Our deadline is, as always, tight so your reply via email or over the phone:
+61 2 9286 5939 by Friday would be appreciated.
Cheers!
Questions:
1. Which systems are the most challenging and which are the easiest to hack
into?
2. What tools do you use for hacking and how do you get specific information
about companies such as user passwords and security loopholes? How often is
this information provided by someone working at that company?
3. Is there any system that cannot be hacked into? What obstacles would you
put into a system to prevent hacking?
4. When you hack into a site, what are you looking for? What makes one
company more attractive as a target than another and what would make a
company NOT a target?
5. What sort of computer training do you have and what proportion of the
'hacker' community actually knows what they're doing and pose a serious
threat, as opposed to just being script kiddies and cookbook crackers?
6. How safe is Linux? I'd like to know what someone who is cracking it open
thinks of it, and is it more secure than NT?
7. How secure are firewalls between an internal network and the Internet and
which sort is the hardest to break through?
8. How vulnerable is a Microsoft NT system if a hacker doesn't have a user
ID and password?
9. As an NT user, how can I stop hackers from getting into my payroll files?
10. How would you go about mounting an attack on a corporate entity's
mainframe systems that sit behind a firewall?
11. How long would it take to crack an encrypted file - both 64 bit and 128
bit?
12. How do you prevent unauthorised access through the X-windows system?
13. What are the weakness of VPN's ? (Virtual Private Networks)
14. What mail package is hardest to crack?
15. Don't forget to give us your nickname or real name and/or an example of
your hacking exploits.
Kim Gilmour
Assistant Editor
MIS Australia Magazine
Ph: (02) 9286 5939
Fax: (02) 9267 2094
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