Employee's Porn Habit Infects U.S. Geological Survey Network with Malware Infection

[GT98]

Clear indication that just because you were "trained" on IT security practices, does not mean you understand them. Training and random internal phishing needs to be regularly implemented to ensure comprehension is actual, and not just feigned.

You'd be amazed at how stupid people are, even with training. We used to do test Phishing messages to our users and we still had tons of people fail them...more often then not because english was a second language to them in other facities. I used to be the lead for physical security at my old location and I still had to write up people regularly for leaving doors propped open when they went outside for a smoke or whatever and this is with yearly refresher training that people signed when they where done with. I got friggen tired of dealing the stupidity and lack of support from management in punishing people (aka make an example of a person) so people would get the point.

 

[katanaD]

Im wondering if they were using an old enough router that didnt have CF filtering, or more likely, the yearly license fees were not included in the annual budget requests, so it lapsed.

 

[Deleted member 93354]

Im wondering if they were using an old enough router that didnt have CF filtering, or more likely, the yearly license fees were not included in the annual budget requests, so it lapsed.

You don't have to do it at the router. You use a service like Z-Scaler sold by verizon/att.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zscaler

 

[DocNo]

Pretty much implies that in this day and age, despite all the publicized breaches, this place didn't even have a properly configured firewall or updated malware detection/prevention software. Whatever they are paying the IT manager of that place, it is too much.

It's worse than that. The whole Department of the Interior (of which USGS is just one Bureau/Office), like most federal agencies, is behind only a few Internet points of presence - known as Trusted Internet Connections or TIC. Four or five if I remember correctly. I'm really surprised they didn't have some basic porn filtering in place somewhere along the line.

Or they did, but nobody was bothering to monitor the alerts

 

[HVAC]

Of course it was a geologist who did this. They all have rocks in their heads.

 

[lcpiper]

the employee admitted to receiving annual IT security training.

Shouldent he have some form of addiction therapy ? i mean i like porn just like the next guy, but i never had the urge for it while working ASO

Hire people to fill chairs and not to produce and you get bored employees doing all the things bored humans do.

 

[BloodyIron]

Management support is required for it to work, if that doesn't exist, might as well dust off your resume.

You'd be amazed at how stupid people are, even with training. We used to do test Phishing messages to our users and we still had tons of people fail them...more often then not because english was a second language to them in other facities. I used to be the lead for physical security at my old location and I still had to write up people regularly for leaving doors propped open when they went outside for a smoke or whatever and this is with yearly refresher training that people signed when they where done with. I got friggen tired of dealing the stupidity and lack of support from management in punishing people (aka make an example of a person) so people would get the point.

 

[d50man]

Vintage rare fetish porn images and video from the dial-up era are worth saving i still have a Compaq server with degraded drive array with 10gb of scsi storage. One day those 2gbx5 drives will serve up mp3z pr0n & wares to the world 20 mbit at a time.

 

[GT98]

Management support is required for it to work, if that doesn't exist, might as well dust off your resume.

I already did that-started a new job wth less responsitibitles, more pay and a slightly shorter commute that chopped off 4 miles (17 vs 13 miles)

 

[piscian18]

I'm most shocked that in 2018 someone is still saving porn.

YOU NEVER KNOW MAN

*the camera moves over a desert wasteland,its 2048. A man in a dusty leather jacket pulls up to the compound made of old buses and bestbuy signs*

"I wanna trade"
"FOR WHAT"
"Wata...and pournn"

*hushed silence for everyone knows the cost of pourn in 2048 is crazy high*