Sunday, May 14, 2006
"The owls are not what they seem"
This is just plain funny but it carries some lessons.
An unnamed company had a piece of unwanted software spread through their network and -- you won't guess this -- print out pictures of owls.
In the mother of mixed metaphors, Network World calls this "fishy".
After we get finished with "where's my mouse?" and the Harry Potter jokes, there are some useful lessons from this one.
This was targeted to a single company. That's happening more and more. Virus construction kits are downloadable: stop and think what could happen if one of those were combined with the inside knowledge of a disgruntled employee. Try keeping the employees gruntled.
Printers are no longer big heavy typewriters. They have processors and memory, and network connections. They are networked computers. Networked computers need to be part of your security plans.
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An unnamed company had a piece of unwanted software spread through their network and -- you won't guess this -- print out pictures of owls.
In the mother of mixed metaphors, Network World calls this "fishy".
After we get finished with "where's my mouse?" and the Harry Potter jokes, there are some useful lessons from this one.
This was targeted to a single company. That's happening more and more. Virus construction kits are downloadable: stop and think what could happen if one of those were combined with the inside knowledge of a disgruntled employee. Try keeping the employees gruntled.
Printers are no longer big heavy typewriters. They have processors and memory, and network connections. They are networked computers. Networked computers need to be part of your security plans.
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