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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

Look out, sysadmins — HOT FOREIGN SPIES are targeting you:

MI5 has warned that foreign spy agencies are targeting IT workers within big organisations as a means of gaining privileged access to sensitive data.

The security service's warning about spy-infiltration tactics is a bid to encourage corporations to bolster their defences against such attacks, the FT (via the Daily Mail) reports. While grooming internal sources with access to highly sensitive information used to take years in the time of the Cold War spymasters, it now takes much less time — basically however long it takes the new recruit to get privileged access to company info... that's if they don't have it already. Paul Ayers, VP EMEA at enterprise data security firm Vormetric, commented: "This warning confirms something that we've been saying for a while now — that the abuse of privileged credentials is the next frontier for cyber crime against enterprises."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2621253/Fo reign-intelligence-agencies-targeting-IT-workers-b ig-businesses-gain-access-sensitive-information-MI 5-warns-British-corporations.html [dailymail.co.uk]

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