A word on security
On October 2, 2007, a colocation data centre run by C I Host in Chicago, Illinois (U.S.A) was robbed for the fourth time in two years. Robbers took $15,000 worth of servers.
On December 6, 2007, thieves stole $4 million worth of servers from a Verizon data centre in London, England.
On May 5, 2008, Peter Gabriel's official website went offline. Users of his Real World-Peter Gabriel and WOMAD services lost all access. The reason is that thieves had stolen the servers from a data centre run by a Carphone Warehouse subsidiary named Rednet Ltd.
As mentioned previously, if an adequate access control system is in place, rogue users are trusted insiders by definition. However, it is worth noting that such a control system is not merely software. Every avenue of attack—from brute force password cracking to using social engineering on a receptionist, is a vector of attack against a database. By virtue of its involving human users, an adequate access control system must provide adequate...
