Australian Customs Computers Stolen.....

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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/04/...2548967124.html

The brazen airport computer theft that has Australia's anti-terror fighters up in arms

By Philip Cornford
September 5, 2003

On the night of Wednesday, August 27, two men dressed as computer technicians and carrying tool bags entered the cargo processing and intelligence centre at Sydney International Airport.

The men, described as being of Pakistani-Indian-Arabic appearance, took a lift to the third floor of the Charles Ulm building in Link Road, next to the customs handling depot and the Qantas Jet Base.

They presented themselves to the security desk as technicians sent by Electronic Data Systems, the outsourced customs computer services provider which regularly sends people to work on computers after normal office hours.

After supplying false names and signatures, they were given access to the top-security mainframe room. They knew the room's location and no directions were needed.

Inside, they spent two hours disconnecting two computers, which they put on trolleys and wheeled out of the room, past the security desk, into the lift and out of the building.

The brazen theft has prompted Australia's top security agencies to conduct emergency damage audits amid fears that terrorists may have gained access to highly sensitive intelligence from the computers.

bluedesignstudios · 09-11-2003

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sextoyking · 09-11-2003

Sarettah,

I can't belive there wasn't more checking on who was allowed access in there..

What's next on these people's list??

sarettah · 09-11-2003

Unfortunately, from my experiences with security (military and civilian) a large amount of it is based upon humans and trust.....

Humans screw up....and trust is becoming a rarer and rarer commodity these days.....

It should be, by now, relying on things such as retinal scans, finger print scans, etc.... But those are high priced solutions and the bottom line is that if they can save a buck they will.....

But there are simpler solutions that dont cost much to implement that also work...

In this case, they showed what appeared to be proper credentials.... If those credentials had to be cross matched against a computer database of which credentials had actually been issued, then something like this would not have happened....

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