Matthew Keys Case Shows Rogue Employees Can Be Just As Dangerous As Hackers
March 20, 2013
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The 26-year-old Reuters editor allegedly behind the hacking of the Los Angeles Times website was not a hacker. He said so himself.
“I’m not a hacker,” Matthew Keys allegedly wrote in an online chatroom he shared with members of Anonymous. “I’m an ex-employee.”
Federal prosecutors charged last week that Keys used his access as a former employee of the Tribune Co. to help a hacker deface the website of the Los Angeles Times in 2010. The Tribune Co. owns the paper as well as the Sacramento TV station where Keys had worked until he was fired — two months before the hacking incident.
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Rogue employees often have too much access to companies’ information, a situation known as “insider threat.” (Photo by Patrick Lux/Getty Images)
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myatheistlife
Mar 20, 2013 @ 05:21:53
Say it right… companies are too lax about ex-employees access to their computer systems. We need to start blaming those that are lax in their security processes… especially when those processes are well known and documented as best practices.
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