Are you a snoop?? Have you been snooped upon?
ONE IN THREE IT STAFF SNOOPS ON COLLEAGUES: One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues’ salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes. U.S. information security company Cyber-Ark surveyed 300 senior IT professionals, and found that one-third admitted to secretly snooping, while 47 percent said they had accessed information that was not relevant to their role.
Cyber-Ark said privileged passwords get changed far less frequently than user passwords, with 30 percent being changed every quarter and 9 percent never changed at all, meaning that IT staff who have left an organization could still gain access.
Additionally, the survey found that seven out of 10 companies rely on outdated and insecure methods to exchange sensitive data, with 35 percent choosing email and 35 percent using couriers, while 4 percent still relied on the postal system.
Keep in mind, the results of the subject above is from an American firm. I know that in my office, we update our passwords religiously……as prompted by our ‘intranet’ system.
My question to you…..have you ever snooped in someone’s email??? At work? At home? I will admit it, I have done it in the past. At home. Was living with someone….I was suspicious of something….I was right. There was a whole lot of inappropriate going on. In retrospect, am I glad I did….yes, the relationship would’ve ended anyway, that just sped up the process…..
Feel free to share your thoughts…..or stories…..change the names to protect the innocent, you know, ‘I have this friend who did that’…we’re cool with that too:)
I’ll update my blog over the weekend with some codes. I’m home this weekend….finally…..after two away, so I feel like I owe you:)
Thanks for stopping by,
Sam
June 20th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Hi Sam
The same thing happen to me regarding the women in the “Chat Rooms” “Cyber Girl Friends” Those LOVE emails that where sent back & forth. How “I didn’t understand him like she did.” ( Trust me, I knew him better than he knew himself, how does he think I found out?)
Well now he is out on his own with no girlfriend, was just let go from work due to down sizing & talking about coming back.
Thats when I told him I had rented out a couple of rooms to U of T students.
“Sorry bud, they have rented the place for 10 months”.
Your on your own…..go back to cyber world where they understand YOU.
LOL LOL LOL
June 20th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I once used a phony name with a girl. I’m still not sure how she did it, but she “snooped” out my real one, that tricky little devil.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:37 am
If anyone thinks that IT staff , management, or even Service providers are not snooping in on your emails - then you are naive. I am sure IT and Service Providers are getting many chuckles, etc …I am fairly sure I saw a tv report that said Google, AOl. Yahoo - etc ..filter and randomly check over 1 million emails a day. If someone is not reading your email - then they could be listening to a frequency that picks up your cell phone conversation - Is anything truly Confidential these days as the world becomes increasingly wireless and web dependant ?
June 20th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Samantha,
What, no details about the guy you “snooped” on? Did you find a picture of him wearing your bra and panties? LOL (I hate when that happens) All I can say is, “Don’t snoop unless you want to find something.” A friend of mine (true) told me (as I was in the same boat as you with a former gf) if you are at the point of snooping on her, it’s more than likely she is cheating.
Wayne
June 20th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
my wife recently thought i was acting wierd..but for differant reasons…anyways she snooped out my cell pohone and found a msg from someone she didnt recognize and my wife likes to knwo everything about anything..so she thought i was cheating on her becasue my friend used some interesting words…i swear on my life i wasn’t and havent and wont cheat on her…but that was a night of lots of tears and reasurences until she realized i was saying the truth
June 21st, 2008 at 7:14 am
If 1/3 of IT staff admitted to snooping, there must be more who aren’t admitting the truth. That scares me.
June 22nd, 2008 at 12:50 am
I once though I was a “victim” of spying so I created some false documents and put them where only I supposedly was the only one with access. Sure enough, the BS I created ended up being spread around work. I disposed of the documents and now I change my password on the 15th of every month for just about every thing I do on line. This also includes my JACK FM code, just out of habit. It’s not a bad habit to get into.