Workers Cause More Problems Than Viruses

Technical Writing Geek writes "A new report finds that, for the first time, virus infections have slipped to the second spot on the list of computer security troublemakers. In first place— a company's own workers. 'The Computer Security Institute has just released the 2007 edition (PDF) of its long-running "Computer Crime and Security Survey," and it offers some dreary news for overworked computer security admins: average losses from attacks have surged this year. More surprising is the finding that the single biggest security threat faced by corporate networks doesn't come from virus writers any more; instead, it comes from company insiders.'"

CONCLUDING COMMENTS

[UncleWilly]

Stop hiding your porn, hiding porn is a security violation.

Norton Anti-Worker

[biocute]

Time to place your order.

I work with my Dad

[JohnnyGTO]

and when it comes to computers, faxes, phone system or staplers we call him the Human.Virus

God forbid you leave your iPod near him!

Bonzai Buddy

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope they don't consider an animated gorilla that pops up and scares the hell out of you while you're trying to masturbate in your office during your lunch break a "problem".

Reminds me of Fawlty Towers....

[Zorbane]

"Can we get you on Mastermind, Sybil? Our next contestant, Sybil Fawlty from Tall Key, special subject, the Bleedin' Obvious..."

Of course they come from the inside

[antifoidulus]

I mean, I wouldn't have had to set the place on fire if they would have quit moving my desk and asked me to kill cockroaches and kept on stealing my stapler.

It's Workers Because

[Nom du Keyboard]

Workers have probably displaced viruses simply on the strength of MediaDefender's e-mails all going public this weekend due to the truly stupid actions of one person, whom I'm very glad today that I'm not him!

Its the lusers fault ...

[PPH]

.. according to the BOFH [wikipedia.org].

Re:Duh

[Mattintosh]

For this exercise, I'm going to assume you're in management.

If your current IT environment isn't capable of supporting my needs then fix it.

If your current needs outstrip the capabilities of our current IT environment, then fund the upgrade.

mv shoe otherfoot

Workers bad! viruses good!

[heli_flyer]

The obvious conclusion is all the workers should be fired and replaced with viruses.

Re:Ignoring the Human Factor is not Bliss

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean that Cindy from HR keeps calling you all the time? Isn't that a good thing?

The only logical conclusion

[gorbachev]

...is to fire everyone.

Re:Ignoring the Human Factor is not Bliss

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually we at the NSA do not encrypt our traffic at all. All of our traffic is in EBCDIC on a 10BASE-FP network. When we want to send a packet to the Internet, someone prints it out on our state-of-the-art dot matrix printer, then types the data into a single terminal logged into Prodigy. Results are gathered with Echelon, and virus scanned four times before being printed out and re-typed into the VAX.

Re:Tag: virii

[Anonymous Coward]

"begs the question" is idiomatic english for most of the english speaking world....asshole.

I think you mean arsehole, or are we talking donkey anus here?

Re:Ignoring the Human Factor is not Bliss

[myowntrueself]

If Cindy from HR calls me and I have to verify that she is, in fact, Cindy from HR, every time she calls me, that reduces my productivity by a certain amount.

Yeah but it could produce some good phone sex...

Excuse me ma'am but I have to ask you a few questions to validate your identity, please bear with me.

What are you wearing? What are you wearing *underneath* that? Are you getting hot? Oh baby do you love it? Yeah thats the way...