Subject: more on website security leaks
From: Stanley Long (slong@customcpu.com)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 23:47:04 AKST
Wired news: Navy Sites Spring Security Leaks
"A group of French security enthusiasts known as Kitetoa
<http://www.kitetoa.com/> discovered the vulnerable sites, which were
running IBM's Lotus Domino software. Kitetoa has reported similar
security problems with Lotus software on other government and private
websites. "
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56219,00.html
"In an e-mail interview this week, Kitetoa founder Antoine Champagne
wrote that a French appeals court recently overturned a ruling requiring
him to pay a fine for publicizing security holes he found at Tati.fr,
the homepage of a Paris-based clothing retailer.
According to Champagne, who has also identified flaws at sites runs by
DoubleClick, Bull Groupe, Veridian and ChoicePoint, the ruling is
important for computer security whistle-blowers.
"You can get to a page that is not supposed to be there for you, but
that is unprotected, without being called an evil hacker," Champagne
wrote."
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