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Found data leak of a company while giving a college lecture | Sijmen Ruwhof

Sijmen writes:

A few weeks ago I gave a guest lecture at the Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands. I graduated there and over the years I kept in contact with some of my teachers since then. One of the teachers told me recently that a lot of students wanted to learn more about IT security and hacking and asked me to give a lecture about it. Of course! And to keep it a bit juicy, I built in a hacking demonstration in my lecture.

Read the full story at http://sijmen.ruwhof.net/weblog/937-how-i-found-a-huge-data-leak-of-a-company-during-a-college-lecture

For any server that’s connected to the Internet (and these days, that’s most servers), security is very important.

Mind that as a fundamental, you have to regard any web server as compromised. Not that they necessarily are, but it’s a very useful baseline to use as these are the most visible servers and thus potentially the easiest targets. What information is present on the web server itself, and what information is on there that can be used to access other systems (and to what extent). Scary? Perhaps. But that’s no reason to not review and put sensible practices in place.

If you’d like to discuss ways to secure your online environment, or would like to see how your current setup holds up to the various security benchmarks, have a chat with us: Open Query offers a security review (ad-hoc consulting) package, and we also offer regular security check-ups for our subscription clients.

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