Saturday, March 24, 2007

Would Your Competitors Do This? Oracle's suit against SAP a timely lesson

Referring to my previous post about the threat of spying as a "driver" in information system security, this just in:
Oracle recently found their biggest competitor has been hacking their systems and stealing their data. on a scale that may best be described as "massive."

SAP allegedly employed the usernames and passwords of customers that the firm had lured away from Oracle to download a variety of technical materials. SAP employees used the log-in IDs of multiple customers, combined with phony user log-in information, to gain access to Oracle's system under false pretexts...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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Mark.