devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine) (10/29/87)
In the latest issue of InformationWEEK, Donn Parker is quoted in an article about computer crime stemming from insiders as saying: "The number of Trojan horses, salamis, worms, viruses and other exotic methods are all extremely rare. What's prevalent is data diddling -- changing data before or as it goes into the system rather than in the computer" OK, so what's a "salami"? Or did the interviewer mis-hear and is this all a bunch of bologna? :-) Bob Devine
tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (10/29/87)
> "The number of Trojan horses, salamis, worms, viruses > and other exotic methods are all extremely rare. What's > prevalent is data diddling -- changing data before or as > it goes into the system rather than in the computer" > > OK, so what's a "salami"? If I remember correctly, its a scheme for stealing fractional amounts of a cent many times (each theft being a small "slice", hence "salami").
wb8foz@netsys.UUCP (10/31/87)
In article <250@vianet.UUCP> devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine) writes: > > OK, so what's a "salami"? Or did the interviewer mis-hear and is >Bob Devine One of the famous computer frauds I remember reading about involved stealing one cent/year out of each employee's withholding account. It went on for years until some diehard added up all his pay check stubs and (bitched)*10^6 until somebody listened to him. That's salami