A Screen Lock Today Keeps the Bad Guys Away

I had the wonderful chance to visit a new doctor today (not that my old
doctor was much better about this) and had the chance to be left alone,
with her computer, for about 10 minutes, unlocked. For those that know
me know this is not a good scenario. For those that work with me at Hurricane Labs they know this tale all too well.

It starts off, innocently enough with the nurse taking my temperature and blood pressure. She then turns to enter this data into the oh-so-convenient computer in the exam room. She logs into her medical app and all is well. She enters my data (my BP was really good :-) ) and then logs out of her medical app. She then tells me "the doctor will be right with you". In this case "right with you" meant about 10 minutes. I looked over at the computer and saw it was unlocked but the
medical app was at a login screen (see picture 1).

I then looked at the window behind the medical app and it was a Citrix app window (picture 2) with all sorts of curious looking icons. Outlook, files, intranet, oh my! I clicked on Outlook and sure enough no login needed, I had access to the email. I also had access to the medical app's "diagnostic mode" but I didn't click on that because my goal wasn't to cause any issues. The file folders, etc weren't veryinteresting but there could have been potential private info in there.
I noticed their windows needed updating too. :-) Bad mojo!The
moral of the story? Lock your screens ladies and gentlemen, it's one of the oldest and best protections against physical, opportunistic
snooping there is.