From: Fernando Cardoso (fcardoso@trusted.pt)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 05:33:22 EDT
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>
> 1) Should I notify the company immediately and terminate the pen test
> early to safeguard them?
Usually when I find a major security breach in a pen-test I gather all the
info I can about it (for reporting purposes) and notify the company
immediately. I think this is the right thing to do in order to safeguard the
customer.
>
> 2) Could this just be a sys admins honeypot or private joke?
Maybe, but you should notify them anyway. Maybe this can be a honeypot setup
in order to find out your pen-test skillz :)
>
> 3) Has anyone ever encountered anything similar?
I've encountered some weird stuff but nothing similar...
>
> 4) Who wants to help me take the sys admin out back and apply a baseball
> bat to him if it is indeed what it appears to be?
Your contract covers that possibility? Cool :^)
Fernando
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