The other day, we reported on the trend for companies to require workers to provide more of their own computer hardware. Here’s what being cheap may get them if they don’t watch out.
Thankfully the gangs are going after the “Big Fish” … executives working from home. The home based Mary Kay business or affiliate marketing operation has not come under assault… yet.
One of the UK’s leading banks has been forced to admit that organised hacking gangs have been targeting its executives. For the past year, Royal Bank of Scotland has been fighting systematic attempts to break into its computer systems from hackers who have sent personalised emails containing keyloggers to its senior management. This has included executives up to board level and is now the subject of a separate investigation by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency.The hackers are homing in on the trend for people to work from home. The hackers make the assumption that the computers being used outside the work environment are more vulnerable than those protected by a corporate IT department.
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