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iPod...you pod...we can all slurp with iPod...

I read with interest the story about stealing data easily using iPods with a tool a security guy created. I received a 60 GB iPod for Christmas; I can certainly see how an organization's most valuable and sensitive data could be slurped out without any knowledge of the company. I did an information check of a few of my security practitioner buddies at some very large multinational organizations. One thought all the USB ports on the desktop computers had been removed, but she did a quick check...of the desktops being used by the contracted staff...and found they ALL had active USB ports on them. Supposedly the tool the security guy created is not designed to download actual files, only report how many it found. However, how trivial would it be for an IT dude to write a simple script to find and download the files? I've accidentally copied files into my iTunes before, and it recognized them with the extensions renamed to look like MPEG files. Hmm...

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 27, 2006 6:44 PM |

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.