More IT Pros Could Turn To E-Crime In Poor Economy 112
snydeq writes to mention that a recent survey by KPMG shows that many people feel that out-of-work IT workers will be much more tempted to turn to criminal activities due to the down economy. This, coupled with an E-crime survey that shows fraud committed by managers, employees, and customers tripled between 2007 and 2008 paints an interesting picture. "In other survey results, 45 percent of respondents who handle critical national infrastructure said they are seeing an increase in the number of attacks on their systems. Fifty-one percent of respondents from the same category said the technical sophistication of those attacks is getting better. Sixty-eight percent said that of all kinds of malicious code they felt Trojan horse programs — ones that are designed to look harmless but can steal data along with other functions — had the most impact on their businesses. Rootkits are the next highest concern, followed by spyware, worms, viruses, mobile malicious code and, finally, adware."
Poor economy affecting IT less (Score:4, Interesting)
I wonder if you go to the (Score:3, Interesting)
ePrison for committing an eCrime.
Re:Thats weird.. I just got this in my email.. (Score:1, Interesting)
This puzzles me. With our universities pumping out so many unemployed and under-employed arts graduates, why can't the spammers find someone who can write grammatical, plausible English?
Re:Oblig. Office Space reference (Score:2, Interesting)
Yep. (Score:1, Interesting)
If I had a buyer for it, I'd definitely sell my company's data for whatever I could get for it. Hell, I'd give them Administrator accounts on my Active Directory network if they asked and paid for it.
Having my department's budget slashed to where I literally can no longer deploy new workstations or printers because we don't have sufficient surge protectors to plug them into or enough wall outlets, my employees fired to where I am now doing the job of about four people, and being made to work 70-hour work weeks on salary are terribly frustrating. Oh, and they're only paying me 40% of the average salary for the market I live in yet the company routinely spends thousands upon thousands of dollars per week in wasted fuel, electricity, and even outright money as I watched one of our customer service agents discard an entire case of blank magnetic cards (~1000) because she spilled coke on the outside cardboard box and didn't want to clean it up. The cards wouldn't even have been touched!
Nobody else is hiring, I can't get a raise, and my savings run out after this month. My current job pays less money than my rent, utilities, car and food monthly cost to say nothing about having "disposable income" that I hear so much about these days. My savings will be dry after having let me survive being "under-employed" for the last 6 month; I had about 3 total months worth of expenses saved up when the job trouble started. I have two months of available credit after that. Then, I'm living in my van or a storage unit, or something.
My friends are all very sympathetic, and have all volunteered that I can do couch rotations for a day or two at a time if it goes that way but that's only marginally better. None of them are in a position to lend me money, not that I'd ever allow them to do that anyway. And my family can't either.
I can't get another job because I'm already working 10 hours a day, 7 days a week -- I guess I could replace "sleep" with "work" but that won't hold for more than a week or so. I guess if I get really desperate, I could sell my car for the ~9k I can get for it and that'll buy me some more time.
In conclusion: Yes. This is happening. And there's probably nothing anyone can do about it.