10% of IT Pros Can Access Previous Jobs' Accounts 218
dinscott writes "According to a survey that examines how IT professionals and employees view the use of policies and technologies to manage and protect users' electronic identities, the sharing of work log-ins and passwords between co-workers is a regular occurrence. It's no wonder then that half of them are concerned about insider threats to network security in their company's current infrastructure! But one of the most surprising results shows that one in 10 IT professionals admit they have accounts from previous jobs, from which they can still access systems even though they've left the organization."
So easy to retaliate, but didn't (Score:4, Funny)
I have a customer who stiffed me a few hundred bucks for sysadmin work, and he has yet to change his passwords. I doubt he even knows how. I ran across one of them a while ago and sure enough it logged me right in to the account for his colo provider. I did nothing. In fact I even notified him that he should change his password and "oh you still owe me" and never heard a word.
"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You stiffed me money. Prepare to be Pwned!"
Re:Does a real "Pro" even know? (Score:4, Funny)
Yes a real PRO knows.
My desk at comcast, one I have not sat at for 7 years now is STILL empty and has my PC on it's desk logged in and running as me. I know this as friends in the department tell me that they still have not moved from my test server on my local machine to a production server so they simply still log in as me with the same password. That will teach them for hiring only MCSE's, one linux box confuses them.
They do use my cube as storage though.