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Pod Slurping Dangerous To Enterprises
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:41:05 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Date: June 20, 2005 12:38:55 AM EDT To: undisclosed-recipient:; Subject: Pod Slurping Dangerous To Enterprises Pod Slurping Dangerous To Enterprises By TechWeb News June 17, 2005 (3:43 PM EDT) Nearly a year ago, an analyst from Gartner recommended that enterprises should think about banning Apple's iPods -- and similar small-sized portable storage devices -- for fear of data walking out the door. Now, with data being lost in more ways than once thought possible -- backup tapes lost by UPS, Social Security numbers sold to criminals, and hackers breaking in to networks remotely -- a researcher has demonstrated just how easy it is to walk off with megabytes of sensitive material when armed with only the ubiquitous iPod and simple software. With more than 30 million iPods in circulation and models packing as much as 30GB of storage space, the gizmo makes a perfect tool for data theft, wrote computer security expert Abe Usher in his blog. Dubbing the practice "pod slurping," Usher created a proof-of-concept application that runs from an iPod that, when the device is connected to a PC, will sniff through a PC's hard drive to find and copy all the Microsoft Office documents it finds. ... http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/164900847 ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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