Information Security

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an attacker can use another person's access credential such as access card to enter areas which are restricted such as server room. It span from a simple singing against someone's name to play back of someone's voice in a voice recognition system.

A typical physical masquerading

Electronic masquerading involves various actions. An example is where a culprit takes the visa card of and individual and demands for the authentication credential. He will then use this to withdraw cash from the ATM machines. Another example is where an employee in a bank steal his fellow employee's login, then use it to access the system then make fund transfer. The owner of that credentials will suffer without knowing the culprit since this attack also originate from inside the organization and hence difficult to detect.

Another way which the one becomes a victim to masquerading is when the system's access control list is weak or wrongly configured. This gives a loop hole to attackers to ...

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by competitor firms where they convince the employee of the other competing firm to disclose information that is suppose to the top secret of the company.

* Another breach of personnel security is brute-force attack. This is where someone with an intention of hacking the system tries a large number of usernames and passwords till he get the correct one. In addition, there software that is able to calculate the password by iterating through a very large database of credential details to come up with the correct password. Some attackers have universal password which crack all other passwords (Theohary, 2010).

Concerning the vulnerability to the breach of personnel security, ...

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