Subject: WWW security From: Hawkeye130@aol.com Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 16:48:08 -0400

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While sitting in on a committee meeting of reporters discussing setting u=
p
connections to the Internet to use as a reference source, our MIS guy mad=
e a
claim that I find hard to believe. I don't have the technical background =
to
know if what he says is correct, so maybe those of you more technical-min=
ded
folk on this list can answer it.

He says that when one of our PCs on our internal (ethernet) network goes
online, via a modem connection to an ISP, it opens up a way for someone o=
n
the outside to get into our internal business network. I know there are
legitimate security concerns if we had our own dedicated internet server =
on
our network and that it served as our access point into the Internet. But=
 I
thought that it was pretty much a one-way street if I log on thru an ISP =
via
standard phone lines.

Is it possible for someone on the Internet to hack their way thru my ISP'=
s ser
ver, up my phone line and modem into my PC, and then be able to get at my=

network drive and into our mainframe system?

Inquiring minds want to know...

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John Graham
Marketing Services Center               Voice: 708-870-2644
Daily Herald / Chicago                      Fax:   708-818-9187
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