Too Much Information: Social Networking Sites Help Hackers Break Corporate Networks
The Internet is a gold mine of information – for the bad guys who want to break into your organization.
Just as foreign spies can use seemingly innocuous bits of personal information to get unwitting people to aid in their nefarious plans, hackers, criminals and enemy agents can easily obtain information from a wide range of online sources that can be used to turn one of your employees into a security threat.
"All it takes is one person to compromise an organization, to compromise your company," said Ira Winkler, president and CEO of the Internet Security Advisors Group, and author of "Spies Among Us" and "Zen and the Art of Information Security." Winkler made the comments in a presentation entitled "Security: How to Recruit Spies on the Internet," at the COMDEXvirtual conference.
