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illumin8 on May 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Phishing Site Found on a Sony Server

How about controlling the DNS for corporation.com? Any company with a reasonably competent IT staff should be able to flatly deny a request for a subdomain. "You want to setup myblinkenlightsbox.corporation.com? Has that machine been hardened to corporate standards? Request denied."

JoachimSchipper on May 20, 2011 [–]

That's how you end up with the testing box on 10.4.253.2 (no DNS), time tracking at 10.3.53.234, and an Excel sheet full of these and other addresses.

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