Money for Data

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As Gordon Smith from Canaudit Inc. pointed out this week "What do hackers want? they want your data." They go through great lengths not only to obtain your data but to correlate that data to make it even more valuable to their clients.

Last year we posted an article published by a German Online News service "wiwo.de" on a sting operation that involved millions of consumers correlated information for sale that may have come partly from well known back doors in customer corporate data.

Today it was published on that Deutsche Telekom found itself in the middle of a scandal accused of giving mobile phone retailer The Phone House access to data on 16 million T-Mobile Germany Customers according to the report published at wiwo.de "Deutsche Telekom: violation of the law, by secret agreements?"

As we have seen through the recent attacks on Google and Intel that no matter how your infrastructure is secured you can be come a target for an attack that they may have been in the planning for sometime or someone waiting for that pre-zero data vulnerability that allows them access to trust relationships.

Who as access to your personnel information and what information is available from their browsers and shares. As Gordon points out in his article it maybe as simple as someone bringing in a laptop that has internet access or wireless scans from your lobby or elevators.