Thursday, December 6, 2001

Security hole at WorldCom left internal computer networks at risk A security hole at WorldCom Inc. left internal networks at several of the nation's top companies (e.g., AOL Time Warner, Bank of America, CitiCorp, News Corp., JP Morgan, McDonald's Corp., Sun Microsystems) open to hackers. Adrian Lamo, a consultant in San Francisco, worked with WorldCom to fix the months-old problem over the weekend. There is no evidence that the security hole had been exploited, although it was possible to reconfigure or shut down corporate networks. Lamo: ``These networks were never designed to be connected to the Internet, They were private circuits running between locations.'' [Source: eponymous AP item, 05 Dec 2001, PGN-ed] http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/080991.htm ["Peter G. Neumann" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 81] 0:00 # G!