Helping Screen Savers - Are They A Threat?
Ok - here is another question I have.
In prepping for our audit our auditing area wants us to have locking screensavers. Ok - cool. Someone asked about the screensavers for orgs like SETI and cancer research to see if that would be alright as well.
We just found out that apparently those aren't cool to be running at the company as someone could intercept the traffic and manipulate with some code and cause havok. Has anyone heard of this happening? I cannot find any evidence that would support the argument that these types of screensavers are a hole and threat. Just in case anyone has not seen, here are the two big ones I found:
Cancer Research
SETI@Home
It could just be that the auditors and prefer people not to use the company bandwidth for these activities, which is fine. I just want to make sure we have the right reason and not some wonk-wonk-wonk reason.
Thanks in advance.