McAfee Leaks 1400 Security Pro Details
Security software maker McAfee has accidentally e-mailed the full contact details of 1,400 IT security professionals to an unknown number of recipients.
The marketing spreadsheet contained the full names, titles, organisation names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of all who had registered for or attended the company's recent Strategic Security Summit in July 17 in Sydney.
Yeah not happy as well,
Totally unacceptable, given this Vendor is pushing a DLP solution.
The McAfee Marketing babe responsible should be SACKED.
If you got the Excel file containing the info her name can be found in the Metadata.
Stupid babe has no idea, checkout her facebook and linked in profile..
Vendor needs to make an example of her if they want to be taken seriously.
(Oh and maybe they should use their own DLP product)

Luckily I'm in Bris -Vegas, and as nothing ever happens here my security posture is substantially stronger than you guys in Sydney ;-)
I draw several rather unfortunate conclusions from this; either they don't know how to set up their own DLP solution, they don't trust it enough to use it, or it's just crap.
On the plus side, selecting a DLP product for my employers may well have just got a little easier!

@XXID: I would love to know who that "babe" is please tell me not one of the ones I was talking to, she seemed to know her stuff. IM me if you got it.
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yeah these AntiViruses are keeping private data upto him that is ok but giving that data to n e one is very Dangerous though it is a Anti things ??
Lol......
Niraj Mohite
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Yeah I went to this, and I am not happy either.
After their big speil about DLP and how they use it, it is major egg on face that this got out. Not only that but they don't know who it was sent to... WTF, I can tell you who I sent an email to last this day last year if you want. Let alone a day or so ago.
I want answers, but I doubt they will be forthcoming.
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