Spyware for Corporate Espionage

therufus writes "Late in July, an e-mail that hit employee in-boxes at a British credit card and finance company carried a secret payload--spyware capable of recording confidential corporate data and sending it over the Net."

Comments

Re: BS !!

[Slightly Askew]

If a email can do all kinds of bad stuff to your computer, it is the fault of the one who wrote the email software, period.

Yeah, right, let's not blame the crook who wrote the worm. If I break into a house with all the doors unlocked, the front porch light on, the security system off, and all the valuables laying in the middle of the living room floor, does that mean I should not be arrested?

There are three perpetrators here. The writer of the email software, the writer of the worm, and the end user. Each has to take partial responsibility for this invasion. To blame it all on the email software is just plain stupid. I would lay the blame more like this:

Email software: 49% Worm writer: 49% Email user: 2%

Maybe we can throw a percentage or two at the IT manager who chose the email software, as well. But let's not forget who the criminal is here, and who is merely guilty of making software with crappy security.