The Seattle SAGE Group (SSG)
Seattle based special interest group for system and network administrators.

The Attack

  1. Going from knowing nothing to having access
    1. This is a real attack.
    2. The target was litterate on hacking from a "normal presentation" stand point.
    3. This was done against a LIVE and AWARE target.
    4. The target's upper management signed off on the attack as a "free security evaulation".
    5. The target was a development environment with real value software and trade secrets.
    6. The TARGET did NOT detect the attack.
    7. ALL real transcripts were given to the target.
    8. The target is more secure today.
    9. The upper management made a small change to the Information Systems Budget (they added a training budget large enough to send three people to five expensive courses, they trippled the conference budget on the condition the conferences were security related.)
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