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October 20, 2005

50 Cent Holes

CIO.com has an article on "50 Cent Holes" -- simple blunders that violate millions of dollars of security safeguards.

Examples:

• Exchange servers with documents named Passwords.doc

• The university office of Financial Aid sent out an e-mail to 119 students, informing them that their failing grades put them at risk of losing their financial aid. The e-mail included all 119 students' names within the e-mail address list.

• MCI said that an MCI financial analyst's laptop had been stolen from his car, which was parked in his home garage. That laptop contained the names and Social Security numbers of 16,500 current and former employees.

Read the article for more -- readers' comments are interesting, too.

Posted by DavidK at October 20, 2005 03:40 PM | Permalink

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