Sensitive Data Stolen Via Digital Cameras

Jack writes "ITO is running an interesting story on a new security threat connecting digital cameras and hackers." From the article: "Following a spate of reports about Bluetooth and iPods devices being used to steal sensitive data from organizations, businesses are now urging to be vigilant as hackers use digital cameras to sidestep security measures. 'Camsnuffling', the latest IT managers headache being used to computer attackers to extract and store data with the help of digital camera." We've previously discussed this problem.

That is why

[Anonymous Coward]

I always log in as anonymous coward.

Re:Memmory Sticks next?

[malraid]

That why our IT department fills every hole in every computer with epoxy. It's bitch when we have to fix something, but then, a broken computer is not a security threat.

May as well...

[grumpyman]

Disallow pen and paper, and blind-fold visitors until they are escorted to where they are supposed to go.

Camsnuffling

[digitaldc]

I thought 'camsnuffling' was breathing heavily through the nose while taking a picture?

Free Luna!

[Thud457]

How am I supposed to smuggle jokes for Mike into the computer complex if you instate a policy like that?!!!

Julius Caesar

[giorgiofr]

Yo, there was this guy long time ago, you know, called C.J. Caesar MC, and he was, like, worried that the Man would steal his secretz, 'namean?, so he came up with this gimmick where he wrote something on a piece of dead skin, how gross is that?, man, but if you had read it it wouldn't have made no sense, but if you had known HOW to read it, then hell yeah, lotsa sense there... than his buddy later called this thingamajig ROT-13 or some such nerdy word, and then lotsa other guys did the same, but more powerful...

I hope you liked this short intro to ENCRYPTION and understand how it can solve some of your problems. Thank you and goodnight.

My secret hiding place

[Hoi Polloi]

"just slip one in your pocket."

I could've been hiding it in my POCKET? Oh shit...

Re:Memmory Sticks next?

[size1one]

"Geez, if they're that worried about security they need to be concerned about anything that stores info"

I have a photographic memory so my employer forces me to work blindfolded.

Re:"Camsnuffling?"

[Anonymous Coward]

Your search - camsnarfing - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

        * If you make up words that sound absolutely ridiculous, it's unlikely that a page already exists for it.

Re:Memmory Sticks next?

[AndroidCat]

Jeez, next they'll stop me from plugging in a 802.11g USB adapter and connecting with a friend in the parking lot. Talk about paranoid!

Re:Let's start with the obvious...

[AndroidCat]

Digital cameras are too much work and attract attention. I just bring in a crate of Silly Putty for copying documents.

Real Network Security . . .

[Dausha]

You can't beat the security where I work. All computers have had their harddrives, network cards, and power supplies removed. All peripherial ports have been welded shut. In the more vulnerable computers, the security people have glued all the keys down, and filled the computer chassis with concrete. Mouse balls are removed. Before each session with the computer, each programmer has to endure a full cavity search and provide a urinalysis. We also are forced to work naked to ensure we don't hide any data in our clothing.

Re:My secret hiding place

[Kelson]

Your USB drive doesn't happen to look like a gold watch, does it?

Re:Memmory Sticks next?

[ozric99]

Yeah, too right. Security is king in the Farm Service Agency. Gotta keep those tomato crops safe from daggum terrists.

Re:Warning...

[Anonymous Coward]

Photocopiers can be used to copy sensitive data. Please dispose of all photocopiers in your company...

Also, please dispose of:
- Printers, which can store information on paper ("papersnuffling")
- Pens, pencils, quills and ink, which can be used to store sensitive and proprietary data on paper or even on employees hands, legs, chests, feet, faces, etc. ("skinsnuffling")
- Clothing, so we can check that you're not "skinsnuffling"
- Keyboards, which can be used to enter proprietary and sensitive data into computers ("keysnuffling")
- Mice, which can be used to click on on-screen keyboards and enter sensitive and proprietary data into computers ("clicksnuffling")

No, seriously... Why are you looking at me like that... These are real threats! ... I'm not making this stuff up, you know!

Re:Big zoom cameras are something too.

[TedCheshireAcad]

Could you, uh, point us to some, uh....evidence? I would like to review the legitimacy of the case...yeah...that's it.

Re:Enough with the Neologisms Already!

[Bloke down the pub]

If only someone could coin a catchy, pithy word for the phenomenon of coining pithy, catchy words for things.