Earlier this year, the actions of a 22-year-old brought WikiLeaks, a previously obscure website, into the public spotlight. Pfc. Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst, allegedly downloaded hundreds of thousands of files from classified U.S. government computer systems onto a CD labeled “Lady Gaga” and provided them to WikiLeaks, which promptly posted them on the Internet, causing scandals within the military and diplomatic corps. The incident left many security professionals around the world wondering about the vulnerability of their own organizations to a similar attack.

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Published in BizTech Magazine on 12/30/10