Social Engineering Causes Apple To Opens Door To Hacker

Hacker convinces Apple support to change user password allowing access.

We all want to believe that our online accounts are safe and as long as we put up good passwords, we can reasonably be protected. That works on the assumption that things are secure on the front end to stop hackers from attempting to figure out our passwords and account names. And for the most part, we are protected. The whole idea seems to run into trouble when hackers are able to gain access through the back end. This is the case when they are able to hack into a server which opens doors to other information. But we so often forget about the human element in our security. And that is exactly what broke down at Apple when they provided a password to a hacker pretending to be someone else.

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