The threat from podslurping

Alright, so the title of the article below must sound sort of messy. In a way, if someone does get a way with this ‘podslurping’, the consequences could in fact become very messy…

Abe Usher, founder of the Sharp Ideas security consultancy, is sounding the alarm again about podslurping — using a portable storage device like an iPod to steal corporate data. To illustrate the problem, Usher is releasing Slurp Audit, a tool to illustrate how easy it could be to steal data with a portable storage device.

One might wonder if too much fuss is being made over the threat posed by iPods and other media devices. The threat is not new, but simply an improved method of walking data out of an organization. Employees could easily download documents to portable Zip drives years ago, but devices with much greater capacity are becoming ubiquitous, and that worries some security folks. [Read the rest]

[tags]podslurping,data theft,it crooks[/tags]