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Poor evidence taking lets off hackers
Tuesday, 04 May 2004, 19:24 GMT

Few companies have the proper audit trails in place to get convictions against hackers, according to security firm NTA Monitor. The company claims that its research shows firms failing to maintain log files adequately - and in some cases not bothering to switch the logs on at all. Roy Hills, technical director at NTA Monitors, said companies do not turn on their logs because traffic gets monitored elsewhere, and because it uses up too much disk space.

"Other companies do log, but don't keep the records long enough," he added.

"I've seen several huge corporations where the log files are overwritten every 30 minutes. If they were attacked, there would be no record of what had happened.

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