Re: Frame relay security

From: Michael Shields (shieldsat_private)
Date: Mon Apr 27 1998 - 17:41:28 PDT

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    In article <199804210018.AAA00511at_private>,
    sedayaoat_private (Jeff Sedayao) wrote:
    > One story that I heard about didn't have anything to do with tampering,
    > but is scary enough to really make one think about encrypting the frame
    > relay traffic.  This was related to me by someone I was working with on
    > a project who used to do security at another company here in Silicon Valley.  
    > At his old company, he was notified that packets from a large financial house 
    > were coming into the corporate internal network.  He checked the company's 
    > firewalls, and they were not the problem.  Packets were leaking into the 
    > company from the company's frame relay connections on their internal net.  
    
    This has happened to me as well -- Bell Atlantic built a PVC from a
    UUNET customer to my POP instead of their's.  It was a human error and
    very little could have been done to prevent it.
    -- 
    Shields, CrossLink.
    



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