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eBay’s “Security Chief” is the Man!
May 23rd, 2006
The head of security for eBay “down under” (Australian IT) is fairly hard on information security practitioners in a recent article. However, In contrast to that guy from a few weeks ago who was spewing all the hyperbole about infosuckitude, the eBay guy has a point – and he provides some suggestions for how to make things better. And no, I’m not being sarcastic. Check out what he has to say:
“There is nothing new about the Internet crimes we see and there is nothing new in the ways we have to fight them…”
“Hacking is breaking into someone’s computer system and tampering with data or stealing it. Is it any different from so long ago when people would break into the store room and steal the files of a company?”
“We have phishing one day, spear phishing the next, deep sea phishing and puddle phishing. All of them are variations on a theme and none of them different to the other crime”
Right?!? How cool is this guy?
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