It's not often you read a security story that blames people for the problem. I found this one to be quite interesting.
Federal IT Face Cyber Attacks Daily
The best quote from the article is this:
Federal employees are still the main cause for security flaws because of their careless online activity along with failure to comply with organization policy, finds the research. It also finds that across civilian and defense organizations, 66% of those surveyed caught employees conducting irrelevant Web-surfing during 2008, while 44% found their workforce noted passwords on office stick-notes that could become public.
The hard part here is how do you get people to care? It's not much different in the real world, where people are rather careless about keeping belongings and personal information safe. It's even harder to convince someone to keep something intangible things safe.
The Internet of today is comparable to
Fagin and his band of little pickpockets. The difference now, is the modern day Fagin doesn't use orphans, but zombie computers, and millions of them. Imagine trying to walk through a marketplace so full of thieving children you can't move. That's pretty much today's Internet.
