The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has written to over 100 firms and organizations warning about a widespread, on-going data breach due to misuse of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software. The FTC did not specify who it contacted, but said it included public and private institutions including schools and companies that employee as few as 8 people to others than employ tens of thousands.
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I think David Scott is right: Most individuals and organizations enjoy Security largely as a matter of luck. Anyone else here reading I.T. WARS? I had to read parts of this book as part of my employee orientation at a new job. The book talks about a whole new culture as being necessary ? an eCulture ? for a true understanding of security, being that most identity/data breaches are due to simple human errors. It has great chapters on security, as well as risk, content management, project management, acceptable use, various plans and policies, and so on. Just Google IT WARS ? check out a couple links down and read the interview with the author David Scott at Boston?s Business Forum. (Full title is I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium).
How long until someone in the entertainment industry seizes on this and starts saying "see, P2P is bad"
How many games and other large software packages have patches distributed via P2P? I know of a bunch, and a couple of the games have a LARGE user base (i.e. millions of users each)
