A federal agent tracks a hacking attack back to Mathias' firm. Could an employee be the perpetrator? The agent went on to briefly explain that on April 4, a computer with a certain IP address that was traced back to a computer at my company was used to hack into a Domain Name System (DNS) server within a small financial institution in the Southeast. . . .
A federal agent tracks a hacking attack back to Mathias' firm. Could an employee be the perpetrator? The agent went on to briefly explain that on April 4, a computer with a certain IP address that was traced back to a computer at my company was used to hack into a Domain Name System (DNS) server within a small financial institution in the Southeast.

The perpetrator broke into the DNS server and gained access to an Oracle database that housed credit cards. I guess the financial institution didn't set up the server trust relationships very well. Most administrators know that DNS servers should never be on the same network or have a trust relationship with critical infrastructure.

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