RE: a basic lesson in security

["marco misitano" <misi () cisco com>]

have a look at this.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-aeble-ooo-replies-00.txt

Marco Misitano, CISSP
http://misitano.com
marco-at-misitano-dot-com


----Original Message----
From: Paul O'Malley [mailto:ompaul () eircom net]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 20:32
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: a basic lesson in security

> Hiya,
>
> Problem information disclosure.
> Method auto responders.
>
> Issue telling me (and who knows who else) you are out of the office
> and being giving enough information to do social engineering. 
>
> I am amazed at the amount of people who have set auto responders to
> this mailing list - bad form folks unless you are all running honey
> pot organisations (or sub organisations).  
>
> I suggest that if you have a piece of software that you set it to
> cause the minimum of messages (i.e. internal only) if you must mail
> externally you put the organisation at risk.  
>
> Should you have you a policy to help with dealing with caller
> verification? 
>
> Solution:
> Have a second mail address that you use for list based material. (Now
> that was hard was it not?) 
>
> Cheers have a good week folks.
>
> Paul O'Malley
>
>
>
>
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