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Subject: RE: Anyone have more info about this breakin?
From: kahar @ sebank . se
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:27:55 +0100
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
Reply-to: kahar @ sebank . se

Since a president and chief executive of CheckPoint Software 
Technologies Inc. was quoted, does that mean Los Alamos's 
firewall was a FW-1 ??? 

>  Among other things, the hackers' robot exploited a known
>  security hole in a Unix e-mail program. Most people program
>  their firewalls to accept e-mail from the outside, which would
>  allow such an attack. One way to prevent that is to set up
>  another firewall that screens mail sent from the server
>  computer to individuals' desktops, said Deborah Triant,
>  president and chief executive of CheckPoint Software
>  Technologies Inc., Redwood City, Calif.

/ Katarina Harcus


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