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If a flash drive infects a network, who's to blame?
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Ealing Council, the local authority for a number of London boroughs, was infected by a virus which crippled the vast majority of the council’s network.
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The damage knocked out the housing department, the library service, telephone network and others, according to the BBC, as a result of plugging in an infected flash drive on a networked computer. But this raises a question of those who are still not yet fully IT literate.
If you plug in a flash memory drive and it infects a network, who is to blame - the user who doesn’t know any better, or the IT staff responsible for the network?
I suspect this is the wrong question, as it avoids pointing the finger at the real villain. Full Story |
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