Leaking info is easy, hard to stop: Inside the Panama Papers
 

Leaking info is easy, hard to stop: Inside the Panama Papers
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The leak of 11 million confidential documents (in about 2.6 terabytes of data) from the Panamanian law firm Mossack, Fonseca and Co. has been credited by some media outlets to a whistle-blower who wants to remain a**nymous. Others have suggested it came from an attack by ******s.

If it was a whistle-blower, then like the S**wden leaks, the Manning leaks*and even back to the Pentagon Papers leak in 1971, this incident once again underlines the dominance of insiders as the primary source of attacks on organizations' critical and sensitive data sets. Organizations spend significant resources to firewall their data against attack by external ******s and cybercriminals. However, they have to often face the dichotomy of effectively preventing leaks of data by the very employees who need to use it for their daily work. Read more...


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