Proof: Employees don’t care about security
As reported by Will Sturgeon on Silicon.com, people (in general) just don’t seem to care about the security of their workplace’s computer network. An experiment was conducted on Valentine’s Day where people who were commuting to work were handed CD-roms for free, while being told the discs contained a special Valentine’s Day offer on them. An overwhelming number of people actually ran the disc on their work computer, even ignoring the warnings provided about installing unauthorized software. The discs actually only contained code that reported back to the study-maker’s HQ how many people actually ran the CDs. No other information was transmitted. But that’s because it was just a study.
Imagine if it were really spyware or virus-laden discs being handed out. Imagine the potential destruction of a company’s network security and data… It’s pretty scary.
I’m not suprised this happened, but it’s pretty scary at the same time.
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