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The Enemy Within the Firewall

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sowing-dissent-and-distrust-in-the-workplace dept.

Mel Tom writes to tell us The Age is reporting that many businesses are now considering employees a much bigger threat to security than most external threats. From the article: "With email and instant messaging proving increasingly popular and devices such as laptop computers, mobile phones and USB storage devices more commonplace in the office, the opportunities for workplace crime are growing."

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  1. Duh! by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Employees are the biggest threat to any company. Especially if the CEO is shoveling the loot out the backdoor.

  2. Then the ONLY real solution is... by 3D+Monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    to get rid of all the employees.

    Seriously, how can anyone get any work done with all this security risks running around?

  3. Here's Some News by mordors9 · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Ms Warwar believes that the rise in internal security attacks has come about because outside criminal gangs realise that recruiting or tricking employees to hand over insider knowledge is less expensive and traceable than other forms of cybercrime."

    Gee someone ought to come up with a name for this... let's see, we can call it "Social Engineering". Hopefully no bad guys will read about this and start using it now....

  4. From the well-duh-department... by hackstraw · · Score: 3, Funny


    Employees often suck. In retail, they rip you off more than your "customers". (I can't call a shoplifter a customer :)

    Kevin Mitnick was able to get employees to give him tons of "sensitive" information just by asking for it. They take their laptops home and surf porn and get 0wn3d and bring the trojans and malware inside the firewall. Hell, they can even VPN the crud in from home or Starbucks too.

    I suggest 1) firing all employees you can 2) treat the remaining ones to a paycut 3) installing spy mechanisms inside of their office, computer, and bathrooms to "keep them honest", and let go of the ones that don't make the cut.

    We don't need no stinking happy employee. We need one that does what they are told, and is already happy to do what they are told. Thats it.

  5. Re:Is security the answer? by Tsugumi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Free coke? Hell yeah, sign me up, my dealer is way too expensive! A hole full of pot sounds interesting too, but I reckon the plants in the office would probably yield a better crop. When can I start? I swear I'm gonna be way too high to be any kind of security threat...

  6. Re:One thing is sure by slapout · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's funny. At one job I had, it wasn't allowed to defragment my own hard drive. Yet I had delete access to every table in the production database. Strange.

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  7. IT 101 by zero1101 · · Score: 4, Funny

    99% percent of the time, employees are not a threat because they're malicious...they're a threat because they're very, very stupid.