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European Parliament Computer Network Breached
Orome1 writes "The computer network of the European Parliament has been targeted by a cyber attack that may or may not be linked to the attack against the European Commission and the External Action Service networks that took place a week ago. According to the Parliament's spokesmen, the attack was still ongoing yesterday morning and information technology services have put in place some security measures — such as blocking access to webmail."
Yup. It would be embarrassing if it were a couple of teenagers breaking in, therefore it is not a couple of teenagers breaking in.
Perhaps it is the same mysterious "Advanced Persistent Threat" that hit RSA a little while ago...
Heres a hint, don't let the user be admins. Then they can't brake out of their account.....
and yes users are stupid. I had one guy who got a mail from USPS, about his Fedex tracking number on his expressmail delivery. He downloaded and opened and ran a zip file. When I asked him if he was expecting a delivery he said 'I dont know'.
That's not how it works. A politician is not your employer, the government is. A politician has no hire-and-fire control over staff outside of politics, even if they have that power at all (which I wouldn't think they do).
Working in the public sector myself, though not politics, I have no problem telling my employer that they cannot have admin access to their local machine, and certainly not to the domain, unless they sign off that they accept that I am released from any and all responsibility under the Data Protection Act. If the choice at that point is breaking policy or losing my job, I choose losing the job. In the UK, it's up to £0.5m personal fines and 6 months in jail for data protection breaches. Fuck that.
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You assume the user cares, and would listen to you.
You assume wrong.