“Experts agree, the human element is as much an issue as advanced technology.
It must have made bank security officers everywhere cringe when it was reported that Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, convinced about two dozen fellow agency employees to provide him their login credentials.
As Brian Feldman, writing for The Atlantic, points out, “A support worker asking for a user’s login credentials is actually a huge security red flag.” Furthermore, Feldman says, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo!, Facebook, and AOL—technology giants that NSA allegedly has back door entry into—all state clearly in their security pages, in one wording or another: Never share your password with anyone.”
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