Using Lounge PC's

[redrat]

Here's a tip for the unwary...

I was browsing through the sites that other users had been to (as one does) while waiting for my delayed flight out of ORD. I found one that I thought looked interesting and it happened to be the personal Outlook Express email account for some Sales turkey with a big name Insurance Account out of the UK. :shock:
Now I figure his company has set him up to be able to logon anywhere without carrying a laptop with him. I took a note of the URL and tried it from my own laptop but it came up with the system asking for a username and password but my own experience with this windows "security" :? system is that once you logon you don't have to do it again while the browser is still going. In this case, when I accessed the lounge PC, Internet Explorer wasn't running & I had to click on the icon but it must have been still running in the background for this to have occurred.
So what did I do?
I accessed his Appointment section, set the alarm, blocked out a two day appointment and wrote him a detailed note telling him that his company has compromised his personal & confidential files by not taking this type of event into account. I also said I'd try to bury his URL as deep into the PC memory as possible (because the PC security wouldn't let me delete it).
Now the company I work for does a similar thing but I need to have a VPN loaded onto the PC and it is such a fickle process that you can only run it on a personal laptop.
All I can say is "BE AWARE"

 

[icemann]

I agree, Redrat.

Check my other post in the hotels section, re: people leaving .doc and other files on the PC in the C: drives of various hotel computers (within rooms AND the business centres).

I've turned up confidential memos and even a contract between two WA mining corporations that were inadvertently LEFT on hotel computers.

Now, fortunately, I'm not the kind of person to go and use that information in the wrong way. I don't care about it. But I do think that it's absolutely sloppy.

You done good mate I think the said executive should buy you a drink.

 

[straitman]

You done good mate I think the said executive should buy you a drink.

Or maybe even a slab

My luck he'd offer to buy the drink in the QC :!:

 

[serfty]

Lounge PC's

I use a web based email service connecting to the company's outlook/exchange server. This can be used from any internet PC and I frequently use it in QP.

(Aren't the new LCD ones in OZ good & there many more than there used to be )

The caveat is that to have access I had to agree that when finished a session I must: 1) "Log off" & 2) Close the Browser Window. This eliminates most security risks.

To make sure, I also 'log off user' on the PC. In QP this actually reinitialises the computer; overwriting all changes since the last (including any document files etc).