Friday’s edition of the USA Today contained an interesting article on the front page of the Money section “Virus targets firms’ financial accounts”. It goes on to explain how the Clampi virus is focused on attacking business computers where the administrator account is being used. Once hijacked, this account is then used to access PCs that perform banking transactions. Once the virus gains access to banking information, the damage can be quite severe.
The article discusses a series of steps to prevent these types of breaches, but, one in particular stands out. Don’t use your administrator privileged account for anything other than administrator duties. Create and use a “Normal” account for your day-to-day duties and ANY time you are surfing the net.
IT staff often use their admin accounts for everything. It’s simpler and saves time. Of course, this posting is written using my admin account… promise by tomorrow I’ll stop using it…
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