Supreme Court Justice Breach
The Washington Post reported that late 2007, an employee of a McLean investment firm decided to trade some music, or maybe a movie, with like-minded users of the online file-sharing network LimeWire while using a company computer. In doing so, he inadvertently opened the private files of his firm, Wagner Resource Group, to the public.
That exposed the names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of about 2,000 of the firm’s clients, including a number of high-powered lawyers and Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer.
The breach was not discovered for nearly six months.This is another demonstration of how common applications can create invisible holes in your firewall and compromise your organization. PromiSEC’s Spectator could have prevented this by it’s policy manager without even installing any software on the desktop. After creating a policy of “approved” software programs, Spectator can scan and enforce for “rogue” software, effectively stopping it and even uninstalling it automatically. It can do this and much much more, for less than $50 per workstation.
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