Information Security News: Re: Columbia House breach exposes customer info

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Forwarded by: Nicolas GREGOIRE <nicolas.gregoire () 7thzone com>

InfoSec News a ?crit :

> "It's almost negligent to have this type of error--it's something
> you're trained to solve in very basic Web training courses, not to
> leave directory indexing on. A large business shouldn't have such a
> simple mistake on their site," said Alway, who immediately sent an
> e-mail to technical contacts at the site Friday. He said he received a
> response Wednesday that the site had been fixed.
Setting "Directory indexing : Off" doesn't solve the problem.
That's just "security through obscurity" !

The right thing to do is restrict acces via login/pass and/or IP.
I've seen some CGI scanners trying /admin/, /test/ and these tricks work
really too often.

So, the webmasters of big sites doesn't need _only_ "basic Web
training courses" but also security courses about the risks of their
website-structure design ...

Nicob

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