India - A Bangalore-based construction company lost a multi-core tender by a thin margin. Baffled company officials vowed there was no way the rival firm could have come so near to their bid...
Computer forensic tests revealed somebody had accessed the Universal Serial Bus (USB) port to download the tender documents. What surprised the company's top heads was that one of their employees had used his iPod to download the data.
The data was then passed to the rival company for a price and to evade detection, the file was promptly deleted from the iPod. Investigators, however, retrieved it using advanced data-recovery software. (more) (how "pod slurping" is done)
This "pod slurp" didn't have to happen. Computers with especially sensitive data should have their ports and drives locked down. Don't know how? Call me, or any of my Geek Chorus Colleagues. Any of us can save you from going through an iPod high-jack.
More about "pod slurping", and an even scarier USB story. ~ Kevin
