From: Craig Wright (cwright@bdosyd.com.au)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2006 - 18:33:30 EDT
Hi,
One of the issues with people who have never worked as auditor but are in pen testing occurs in this situation.
There are a few things to be considered. In cases where there is a serious criminal offense you have no choice (at least legally) but to go to senior management and the police. Senior management need to be approached first and the incident needs to be handled in a manner which will not impune the integrity of the evidence. If senior management are likely to be involved this must be escalated to board level.
The nature of these types of crimes are those such as child porn. Serious offenses are defined under the Crimes Act.
In other cases, the response will vary dependant on the level of materiality. Any incident that may have a material impact on the company must be actioned. In cases where there is no material impact the incident must be escalated.
Additionally, if the company has a (valid) incident response policy and procedure, than this should be used where applicable.
As a final note, remember that if you fail in your duty to report this and it later comes out, you could be criminally liable yourself and at the least liable for tortious negligence civilly.
Regards,
Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Wood [mailto:dninja@gmail.com]
Sent: Fri 2/06/2006 6:50 PM
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Cc:
Subject: Spam: what to do it illegal activity found during pen-test
Hi
I was wondering the other day, what should I do if during a pen test I
found some illegal activity (internal, not from hackers) on the
network being tested. My initial
thought was report it to the police and let them sort it out but then
thought I suppose that depends on the activity taking place. One one
hand you could find a ftp site with a couple of movies on, the other
you could find a website full of child porn. The first may just need a
mention to the company IT staff, the second would definitely warrant
police attention.
Talking to someone they suggested the case where a web cam was being
used to watch women's toilets. Should that be reported to the company
first to stop the activity, then to the police, or could reporting it
to the company give the perpetrator time to clean up their activities.
All this is just idle questions at the moment but I'm curious to see
if anyone has come across this kind of situation and how did they
dealt with it. As I'm in the UK I'm particularly interested in any UK
stories.
Robin
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