An article broke yesterday that closely mirrors one of the discussion topics within the Human Factors seminar that I teach for the Norwich University MSIA program.
Posts Tagged ‘insider threat’
Insider Threat Example: Ex-Coca-Cola Employees Sentenced to Prison For Trying To Sell Trade Secrets To Pepsi
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Insider Threat Example: Engineer Leaks U.S. Military Secrets
Friday, May 11th, 2007There has been a lot of talk and blogging recently about whether or not there is a need for an information security industry/profession. Um sure, and there is no need for the physical security industry/profession either, is there?
As long as humans touch information in any way, electronically or physically, information security will be needed to provide them with policies, procedures, standards, guidance, training, ongoing awareness, and responding to and fixing the security messes and privacy breaches they cause.
SMBs, Identity Theft & Insider Threat: Bad SMB Security Impacts Organizations of All Sizes
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007There are many articles written about the insider threat, several have been done, and often the focus is on large organizations where those employees with malicious intent are often either in positions of trust way down in the org chart, or the perpetrator is the person at the helm of the organization.
Insider Threat Example: Former Wal-Mart Employee Spied Because His Managers Told Him To
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007I have seen organizations where management and staff members were so fixated on protecting the company, to the disregard of observing laws and complying with policies, that they ended up doing completely inappropriate actions that involved infringing on privacy and breaking laws.
Insider Threat Example: Wal-Mart Fires “System Technician” for Snooping On Text Messages and Taping Phone Calls
Monday, March 5th, 2007Today CNN reported Wal-Mart fired a systems technician who was “intercepting text messages of people who were not Wal-Mart employees and for recording telephone conversations with a New York Times reporter without authorization.”
Insider Threat Example: Medco Employee Indicted for Planting Computer Logic Bomb
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007On December 19, 2006, a computer systems administrator, Andy Lin, for Medco Health Solutions, Inc. was indicted by a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey for attempting to disable his employer’s corporate computer servers through the use of a concealed malicious software program.
Today (January 3) Lin is being arraigned. If convicted, he could get 20 years in prison and a fine of $500,000; $250,000 for each of the two charges.
U.S. Naval War College Network and Website Still Down From Hack Over Two Weeks Ago
Thursday, December 7th, 2006Tuesday Silicon Valley reported the U.S. Naval War College’s network and website had been down for over two weeks as a result of a hacker. The hacker apparently didn’t take the site and network down, but the Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command took it offline after detecting the unauthorized access on, or around, November 16.
