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To: PJ Strifas who wrote (30667)	3/9/2000 12:53:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (2) of 42771

Hello PJ, How's it going? I hope that you're doing well ... I agree on the security front, however it's funny how these articles get "positioned" by various press. I have a friend who has been a database developer for a long time, and he indicated that when these articles started to show up, he began to receive urgent notices from both Microsoft and Oracle - both telling him to remember to change the default passwords!!!!! If you read the article closely: ======================================= "I would like to thank the nice people at ALL the Sites I Cracked for having left their entire sales database, readable & writeable for any one who bothered to check their site out," Curador wrote on a Web site saved by Davis, who is continuing to investigate the case. "Maybe one day people will set up their sites properly before they start trading because otherwise this won't be the last page I post to the NET," the message read. "Also Greetz to my friend Bill Gates, I think that any guy who sells Products Like SQL Server, with default world readable permissions can't be all BAD," the message read. ======================================= So what we are really looking at is two fold ... one, that the installation of the softare used to have default passwords ... and two, that a amateur admin is running the site and didn't change the default passwords ... No solution for security if the admin leaves the door wide open ... ;-( Scott C. Lemon

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