Posted on 11/12/2013 7:05:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
While employees may get the brunt of the blame for security breaches, company leaders are doing their fair share of damage as well, a new study finds.
Research from ThreatTrack Security revealed that 40 percent of security professionals found that a device used by a member of their company's senior leadership team had been infected by malware because of a visit to a pornographic website, and nearly 60 percent of the security professionals surveyed have cleaned malware from a device after an executive clicked on a malicious link or was duped by a phishing email.
In addition, 45 percent of respondents said they have found malware on a senior leader's device because the executive allowed a family member to use it, with one-third of security professionals discovering it on an executive's mobile devices because they installed a malicious app.
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Uh, isn’t there an ipcc get together going on somewhere right now? Maybe someone could check and see how much www.porn action is going on there. LOL! Other than the pornographic disgusting bill of crap they’re tryin’ to unload on the world. Less Australia of course.
Link not working. Execs at internet must be watching porn again.
That’s true for the spread of computer viruses.
As for the production of computer viruses, it is very often the antivirus companies. I used to work for one, and we document that company’s virus production on our blog.
I heard that of Norton. So it comes preinstalled. And impossible to eradicate for a cabinetmaker.
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Yeah, that never happens to techies who watch porn at work because they’re smart enough to know which sites are legit porn sites and which ones are fake and are simply meant to be virus honey traps.
Execs on the other hand are too stupid to tell the difference.
Execs are much more likely to have private offices. I suspect it would be even across the board if all employees had private screens.
Obviously, those security "professionals" don't live up to the moniker. If they'd been on the job, their boss's computer would have been impervious! Why employ them otherwise? The boss could just buy a new computer for much less than they are paid!
Those Ukrainian Shemale Midget Dominatrix Sites will mess up a hard drive something fierce.
No system is "foolproof" because fools are just too clever.
This isn't happening at work, most likely. Everybody has laptops that they bring home these days.
Cruising porn on a work computer, even at home, is a really stupid idea.
Once some years ago I tried to disable Norton on my PC and it shut down my Internet access. I couldn’t figure out what had happened. Dirty bastards.
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