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Workers Cause More Problems Than Viruses
Technical Writing Geek writes "A new report finds that, for the first time, virus infections have slipped to the second spot on the list of computer security troublemakers. In first place— a company's own workers. 'The Computer Security Institute has just released the 2007 edition (PDF) of its long-running "Computer Crime and Security Survey," and it offers some dreary news for overworked computer security admins: average losses from attacks have surged this year. More surprising is the finding that the single biggest security threat faced by corporate networks doesn't come from virus writers any more; instead, it comes from company insiders.'"
Stop hiding your porn, hiding porn is a security violation.
Time to place your order.
Virtual Betting on Facebook for non-geeks.
and when it comes to computers, faxes, phone system or staplers we call him the Human.Virus
God forbid you leave your iPod near him!
Si vis pacem, para bellum! For evil to succeed good men need only do nothing!
I hope they don't consider an animated gorilla that pops up and scares the hell out of you while you're trying to masturbate in your office during your lunch break a "problem".
"Can we get you on Mastermind, Sybil? Our next contestant, Sybil Fawlty from Tall Key, special subject, the Bleedin' Obvious..."
I mean, I wouldn't have had to set the place on fire if they would have quit moving my desk and asked me to kill cockroaches and kept on stealing my stapler.
Monstar L
Workers have probably displaced viruses simply on the strength of MediaDefender's e-mails all going public this weekend due to the truly stupid actions of one person, whom I'm very glad today that I'm not him!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
.. according to the BOFH.
Have gnu, will travel.
For this exercise, I'm going to assume you're in management.
If your current IT environment isn't capable of supporting my needs then fix it.
If your current needs outstrip the capabilities of our current IT environment, then fund the upgrade.
mv shoe otherfoot
The obvious conclusion is all the workers should be fired and replaced with viruses.
You mean that Cindy from HR keeps calling you all the time? Isn't that a good thing?
...is to fire everyone.
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
Actually we at the NSA do not encrypt our traffic at all. All of our traffic is in EBCDIC on a 10BASE-FP network. When we want to send a packet to the Internet, someone prints it out on our state-of-the-art dot matrix printer, then types the data into a single terminal logged into Prodigy. Results are gathered with Echelon, and virus scanned four times before being printed out and re-typed into the VAX.
If Cindy from HR calls me and I have to verify that she is, in fact, Cindy from HR, every time she calls me, that reduces my productivity by a certain amount.
Yeah but it could produce some good phone sex...
Excuse me ma'am but I have to ask you a few questions to validate your identity, please bear with me.
What are you wearing? What are you wearing *underneath* that? Are you getting hot? Oh baby do you love it? Yeah thats the way...
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.