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FTP Sites Vulnerable to Data Breaches

Peter Piazza writes on CIO Today:

What do the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and video-game giant Sega have in common? The answer is that both exposed sensitive data via their File Transfer Protocol (FTP) sites. While the impact on Sega was only to force the company to release information on a new game earlier than it wanted to, in the former case it could have cost the lives of soldiers in Iraq.

FTP may be a dinosaur these days, but it's being used -- or, perhaps, misused -- regularly by employees who are simply trying to do their jobs, but who lack the adequate tools, according to John Thielens, vice president of technology for Tumbleweed, a vendor of content-security solutions.

posted by Fergie @ 4/02/2008 11:34:00 AM