One in three IT workers admit to snooping on colleagues
using special
administrative passwords, says a data security
firm.
They admit to peeking at confidential information such as
private company files, wage data, personal emails and human
resources information.
Data security firm Cyber-Ark questioned 200 IT professionals at
the recently held Infosecurity conference in London, and also found
that more than one-third of IT professionals claimed they could
still access company networks once they had left the job.
More than half of respondents also admitted to using Post-It
notes to store administrative passwords. A fifth of respondents
admitted they rarely changed their administrative passwords, with
7% saying they never changed them.
This may explain why one-third of respondents said they would
still have access to a network even if they had left the
company.
The survey also found that 8% respondents said manufacturers'
default admin passwords on critical systems had never been changed,
which remains the most common way for hackers to break into
corporate networks.
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