CyberSECURITY June, 28th 2011 by admin

There is no patch for human stupidity DHS finds

“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ran a test this year to see how hard it was for hackers to corrupt workers and gain access to computer systems. Not very, it turned out.

Staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB thumb drives in the parking lots of government buildings and private contractors. Of those who picked them up, 60 percent plugged the devices into office computers, curious to see what they contained. If the drive or CD case had an official logo, 90 percent were installed. “

Source: Human Errors Fuel Hacking as Test Shows Nothing Stops Idiocy – Bloomberg

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