Beware Of Good Looking Women

According to the folks at scmagazine.com, many male employees would show a good looking, nicely dressed woman, how to use a company computer if she walked in looking for help. This might seem like a joke or unbelievable, but “according to this year's CSI/FBI survey on Computer Crime and

Security more than $30 million worth of damage was caused by insiders stealing proprietary information. FBI and other security analysts still maintain that the majority of threats originate from insiders or people with insider privileges.”

The rest of the article entitled, “Social Engineering and other threats to internal security “, revealed how hacker Keith Mitnik was able to use ‘social engineering’ to gain access to your computer. Mitnik described a scenario in which a promotional CD sent to an employee could be used to gain access to a company’s computer.