Malicious software meets BYOD | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Bringing together two separate pieces of security research reveals vulnerability to cybercrime on an alarming scale.

 

When trying to get a handle on cybercrime today, consider this: In millions of homes across America, unencrypted company information is sitting on unprotected desktops and laptops – in the hands of employees who have had no security training.

 

At the same time, we see software being deployed that can stealthily and remotely scan the hard drives of those machines for specific data, and secretly transmit it back to the scanner.