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88% of IT Admins Would Steal Passwords If Laid Off
narramissic writes "According to identity management firm Cyber-Ark's annual 'Trust, Security & Passwords' survey, a whopping 88% of IT administrators would steal CEO passwords, customer database, research and development plans, financial reports, M&A plans and the company's list of privileged passwords if they were suddenly laid off. The survey also found that one third of IT staff admitted to snooping around the network, looking at highly confidential information, such as salary details and people's personal emails."
99% of men masturbate. The other 1% are lying.
12% of all admins were laid off today in order to clear up resources for paying ransom on old passwords...
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
88% of IT Admins Would Steal Anything to get Laid
What ever happened to sysadmins being known for having strong/good morals and ethics?
we store all our important details in a seperate UNIX user account, whose password we don't divulge to sys-admins, so good luck stealing our documents...
I could program a virus that would rip that place off bigtime......bigtime
.. I have a 120dpi scanned transparent GIF of the CEO's signature.
There is a war going on for your mind.
... yea just shoot them instead :P
I could program a virus that would rip that place off bigtime......bigtime
I believe you have my stapler.
Better go the pre-emptive way: make offside backups before the shit hits the fan.
Bad idea. You'd get a 5 yard penalty on the play.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
It was also discovered that 12% of IT Admins lie on surveys.
I store my passwords on yellow post-it notes next to the computer. Never seen a sysadmin getting out of the basement, so I assume my passwords are safe.
You've never seen my personal IT Bible, the Archives of the BOFH.
He exemplifies keeping a system running smooth THROUGH vindictive and dishonest means.
He's my Hero.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
as for who they actually ... who knows?
300 felons recently paroled for computer and technology related crimes.
And they thought to warn us, how considerate. Perhaps they also have the perfect solution to the problem.
Depends.. Would that be "Conjugal Visit Prison", or "Pound Me In The Ass Prison"?
I once got what I assumed to be an attempt at social engineering into our systems.
Caller (who did not identify himself): "Hi, would you be interested in completing a survey?"
Me (bored): "Uh, alright."
Him: "Can you outline for me the steps you take to ensure the security of your IT systems?"
Me: "Absolutely! First, I do not discuss my security configurations with unknown people. Have a nice day." and then hung up on him.
I probably already had them, no need to steal them on the way out the door.
Seriously, I'm kinda glad to not be doing sysadmin stuff any more, except for my own systems. I was called in pretty regular in the old days to 'secure' the system just in advance of the incumbent being dismissed. Always a nasty business, both because the incumbent was usually capable of great harm, and because their boss was invariably 'difficult', and often wanted guarantees that the fired employee would never get back into their systems. I told one CFO that you could only be sure if you cut off both hands, put out both eyes, and seal him in a grave. Funny, the CFO took more than a moment to tell me that wasn't an option. I know he was wondering if the lawyers could be more effective.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
I routinely gave my superviser written memoranda with my passwords written on it, the last time I worked in the shrinkwrap software industry. When the inevitable (and somewhat volatile) parting of the ways finally came, I got even by doing absolutely nothing. Information entropy had miraculously lost, hidden or evaporated every memo of mine, along with every trace of me in my spotlessly clean cubicle, so when my work (plastered with non-disclosure agreements in effect for two more years) suddenly became unavailable in plain sight -- Microsoft Windows 2000 was one thing they did VERY well -- I'll be doggoned if I could recall my password! Struth, too. I always picked 32 character secure passwords, just like Best Practice, and those things are darned hard to reconstruct after a week or so of cooling off. They didn't offer hypnotherapy. They fired my super, too. Moral: Never, ever call a damn fine programmer analyst a "coder."
``Tension, apprehension & dissension have begun!'' - Duffy Wyg&, in Alfred Bester's _The Demolished Man_
I think most IT folks would like to believe they're of higher than average IQ.. They wouldn't be working in IT if that were true.
Well,
Since you're asking:
You can access my network by going to http://192.168.1.1
The password to get in is "admin". There is no username.
Once in there you can make any changes you want. Just please remember to e-mail me when you're done.
Thanks!
Sabotaging a network is no different than setting fire to the building.
B-b-but, but but, they they took my stapler. It's the - the red swingline model.
Any plan which depends on a fundamental change in human behavior is doomed from the start.
"Conjugal Visit Prison", or "Pound Me In The Ass Prison"?
Depending on your perspective... Yes?
Any plan which depends on a fundamental change in human behavior is doomed from the start.
See, I already know that you're probably using a linksys router.
/. Probably many of us use a linksys router. Aw, now the others know about my router, too...
Then again, it's
I'm an infovore...
there was this article on slashdot that said he would steal my password!!!
thats why after i fired our it staff and outsourced it to india, who subcontracted it to the phillipines, our network started to have problems and we cant find the data for the deloitte audit!
obviously he's stolen my password that windows requires i change.
Good people go to bed earlier.
They mostly come at night... mostly.
Well to be a janitor, you probably need experience cleaning up shit, so at least a MCSE.
Cool art gallery, if you're into that sort of thing.
its not yours anymore
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Doesn't work , my router is on 192.168.123.254
However , if you enable remote access on your router , you have a chance of winning a lottery. All you have to do is sign up , and give your external ip as a reference , if your ip wins , you win the great amount of $50M ( fiftymillions US dollars ) . It's from my aunt in Nigeria who died in mysterious plane crash.
Slipping shoelaces ?
Why would they need to steal the CEO's password, when there is any number of ways to get access. Especially as letting the CEO have admin access is highly dangerous as he keeps his excel documents in the C:\Recycler folder to save space .:)
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