George Ou's technology blog: Making tech easy http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/BlogId/1/Default.aspx en-US george_ou@lanarchitect.net Admin@formortals.com Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:57:17 GMT Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:57:17 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.4.0.39853 <p><font size="2">The dirty little secret in information security is that anyone or company using FTP to transfer files is probably violating every security compliance requirement under the sun and most companies are guilty of it.&#160; The authentication and payload transmission system in the FTP protocol is completely unencrypted and in the clear.&#160; If those authentication credentials are shared by other&#160;access controls in the organization, then a lot more than the FTP server is at stake and a sniffed FTP password can lead to a much larger security compromise.</font></p> http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/39/Default.aspx george_ou@lanarchitect.net http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/39/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.formortals.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=39 Sun, 11 May 2008 07:39:00 GMT 0 http://www.formortals.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=39