Russian spy ring needed some serious IT help
Written by Phil on July 12, 2010 in InfoSecurity.
The Russian ring charged this week with spying on the United States faced some of the common security problems that plague many companies — misconfigured wireless networks, users writing passwords on slips of paper and laptop help desk issues that take months to resolve.
In addition, the alleged conspirators used a range of technologies to pass data among themselves and back to their handlers in Moscow including PC-to-PC open wireless networking and digital steganography to hide messages and retrieve them from images on Web sites.
See Russian spy ring needed some serious IT help: Technology and a slow help desk undo Russian spies, by Tim Greene for Network World.
Tags: cybersecurity, espionage, InfoSecurity, Russia, spy, steganography
