On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
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> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
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> > > According to an AT&T sponsored survey, 78% of executives admitted to opening
> > > attachments from unknown senders in the last year, 29% used their own name
> > > or birthday as a "secure"
On Jul 17, 2004, at 8:22 AM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
1) she's overwhelmed by the amount of things that pop up at you, ask
you to
click on them, tell you theyre an email from microsoft etc etc
Yeah, that sux.
Someone should fix that. Get right on that, would you? :)
In the mean time, tell her not
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> 2) she "only uses the pc for web browsing, if it gets infected theres
> no harm that can be done"
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> So how do you argue with that?
I think we have to learn to explain to the "normal" people, without scaring
them too much, that their PCs are part of a big online world
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> > According to an AT&T sponsored survey, 78% of executives admitted to opening
> > attachments from unknown senders in the last year, 29% used their own name
> > or birthday as a "secure" password, 17% accessed the company network in a
> > publi
...and security, access-controls, etc. have to have a transparency
and ease-of-use factor such that legitimate users don't actively
attempt to bypass it themselves. :-)
- ferg
-- Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Donn S. Parker pointed out controls are ineffective w
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Dave Dennis wrote:
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> Tell them that every time they click on that thing, it costs $1000
> to disinfect the LAN and keep the firewall up to date.
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Sean quoted some numbers sometime ago for 'average cost of virus outbreak
per enterprise' I don't recall the specifics, but t
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
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> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> > Donn S. Parker pointed out controls are ineffective without user
> > cooperation.
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> > Acc
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> Donn S. Parker pointed out controls are ineffective without user
> cooperation.
>
> According to an AT&T sponsored survey, 78% of executives admitted to
> opening attachments from unknown senders in the last year, 29% us
Donn S. Parker pointed out controls are ineffective without user
cooperation.
According to an AT&T sponsored survey, 78% of executives admitted to
opening attachments from unknown senders in the last year, 29% used their
own name or birthday as a "secure" password, 17% access
