[Year 12 SofDev] If you leave your back door open you never know who might get in

[Mark]

Cool!  Index also under "Disgruntled employee"

Cheers!
Mark

On 4 August 2015 at 14:48, Walker, Michael A <
walker.michael.a at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> I take your mere email hack, and raise you. I remember an episode of Blue
> Heelers years ago (Season 9 – “Flushed” according to Wikipedia) based on
> the incident described in the below link, where a hacker used a backdoor he
> had either implemented or was aware of to take revenge on his former
> employer:
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> http://www.isssource.com/classic-hacker-case-maroochy-shire/
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> Be careful leaving backdoors open, you could end up drowning in…..
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> Michael Walker,
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> Doncaster Secondary College.
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> *From:* sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 4 August 2015 2:30 PM
> *To:* Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Year 12 SofDev] If you leave your back door open you never
> know who might get in
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>
> (Stop sniggering. This is serious.)
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> Hi, disappointed sniffers of whiteboard markers
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> Another in my series of software development disasters.
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> As you know, programmers often include back doors in their code to allow
> quick and easy high-privilege access during testing.
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> Unfortunately, they don't *always* remove the back door from the source
> code before compilation and implementation.
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> This can happen to the smallest coders, and the biggest, such as Microsoft
> in 1999.
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> This famous example might be worth mentioning to the kids.
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> "The handful of lines of simple HTML code that constitute the exploit took
> advantage of a Hotmail login script called "start" that is not currently
> used on the Hotmail welcome page, and the password "eh."
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> "After examining that code early Monday, outside security experts
> suggested <http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21495.html> that
> the problem might have been a backdoor inadvertently left open on Hotmail
> servers by Microsoft engineers.
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> "Microsoft vehemently denied the backdoor suggestions, and instead
> described the problem as "an unknown security issue."
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> Read more at
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> http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/12538/Hackers-in-1999-discovered-a-flaw-that-allowed-logging-into-any-Hotmail-account-with-the-password-eh-ab731-3
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> http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/08/21503
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook.com
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> http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1iv2jl/til_in_1999_hackers_revealed_a_security_flaw_in/
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> --
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> *My woman drives me to drink. I have to walk back home.*
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> Mark Kelly
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> http://vceit.com <http://vceit.com>
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>

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Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw
back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don't care who hears
me, because I am beautiful.(Jack Handey)

Mark Kelly


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