Bumbling execs leave tenders on hotel business centre PCs

  • 14 April 2016
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It sounds like cybersecurity common sense should also be taught to those higher up the pecking order as well.
 

And then cabbies hand over in-car recordings of their chatter

  13 Apr 2016 at 23:34, Darren Pauli Blundering Australian executives have left sensitive financial documents and tenders in the business centre of prominent luxury Canberra hotel, security man Wayne Ronaldson says. The documents were left unprotected in the folders of the Windows desktops and contained information sufficiently sensitive to cause massive damage to at least three firms.
 
That mess was one of several illustrations Ronaldson offered delegates of the Federal Government's Australian Cyber Security Conference in Canberra yesterday.
 
The co-founder of Adelaide-based consultancy Risk Offensive says corporate sensitive data is being stolen by local and international hackers, taxi drivers and clerks – or simply being lost due to execs' own epic security blunders.
 
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Stupid is as Stupid does, they deserve what they get.

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