http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bangalore/iPod_as_device_for_stealing_data/articleshow/3649522.cms [ http://www.infosecnews.org/hypermail/0203/5524.html - WK] By Vinay Madhav The Times of India 29 Oct 2008 BANGALORE: Just a month ago, a Bangalore-based construction company lost a multi-crore tender by a thin margin. Baffled company officials vowed there was no way the rival firm could have come so near to their bid. Soon, investigation proved them right and it was found the tender documents were leaked. The company was in a dilemma to find the mole. Only a few persons were aware of the tender details and they were the mosttrusted ones. Also, such an incident had never happened in the company. Computer forensic tests revealed somebody had accessed the Universal Serial Bus (USB) port to download the tender documents. What surprised the company's top heads was that one of their employees had used his iPod to download the data. The data was then passed to the rival company for a price and to evade detection, the file was promptly deleted from the iPod. Investigators , however, retrieved it using advanced data-recovery software. [...] ______________________________________________ Visit the InfoSec News Security Bookstore Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.orgReceived on Fri Oct 31 2008 - 03:07:25 PDT
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