New-fangled office thieves
The following article was published in Daily Mail, December 2005. The text has been edited for use on this website.
They could easily be tiny creatures from Narnia or dwellers of Middle Earth.
But, according to security experts, the habitat of the Camsnuffler, Podslurper and Bluesnarfer is much more mundane.
They are the names used to refer to office workers who download sensitive company information to digital cameras, iPods and mobile phones.
According to Ian Callens, of Icomm Technologies, the tiny pocket devices can be used to pilfer anything from company accounts to entire customer databases.
"This is very difficult issue to manage, and a real threat to business continuity and data security,' he said
