Workers Cause More Problems Than Viruses

…and this is supposed to be surprising?


Workers Cause More Problems Than Viruses
Technical Writing Geek writes “A new report finds that, for the first time, virus infections have slipped to the second spot on the list of computer security troublemakers. In first place— a company’s own workers. ‘The Computer Security Institute has just released the 2007 edition (PDF) of its long-running “Computer Crime and Security Survey,” and it offers some dreary news for overworked computer security admins: average losses from attacks have surged this year. More surprising is the finding that the single biggest security threat faced by corporate networks doesn’t come from virus writers any more; instead, it comes from company insiders.'”

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