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The Inside Job

We talk a lot about evil hackers breaking into databases but all the evidence shows the bigger risk is the inside job, as AOL has shown.

 

Here is a guy who sold out his employer for cash and the problems only going to get worse. People are greedy and there will always be the temptation to sell out your employer for cash, particularly if you're a grievance.

 

I'm not too worried about this case, it was only spamming. But my biggest fear is there's a programmer in a major software house putting little chunks of spyware in common applications. If that happens we're all in deep, deep trouble.

August 22, 2005 | Permalink

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Another prime example of the insider threat being alive and well and what it could cost an organization...

Posted by: Carl Davis | 6 Sep 2005 09:13:46

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