Security News > 2023 > October > Forget the outside hacker, the bigger threat is inside by the coffee machine

Kettle In this week's Kettle the topic is one that's been much in the news this week - the much-underrated insider threat issue.

Time and again the most effective thieves are already inside the building and using their corporate-issued credentials.

Such was the case this week in the NSA of all places, where a rogue systems engineer, who resigned in anger, tried to sell purloined documents to a Russian agent in exchange for cryptocurrency.

News of another insider who did get away with it, it seems, came on Tuesday, as an ex-staffer at Dutch chip-making biz ASML appears to have taken a new job with Huawei, and is accused of taking secrets with him.

Tobias Mann has the inside information of the case and, as Biden's sanctions bite harder, we may see more of these sorts of shenanigans.

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