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Cahoot security blunder could have been prevented.


Cahoot Ca`hoot´

n. 1. Partnership; league; as, to go in cahoot (or in cahoots) with a person s>.
, Abbey's online bank, had a major security breach recently, enabling customers to see each other's online banking information, including customer account information. Kavado's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  Vik Desai Desai is an Indo-Aryan administrative title and surname derived from the words "dah sai", which mean "ten parts". Desais were revenue collectors who looked after a region or area on the ruler's behalf and in return would get ten percent share of revenue.  said that this security breach could easily have been prevented by installing web application firewalls which prevent applications allowing unauthorised access, even in the event of the IT department making a mistake. In this instance the technology would have prevented access to account details without the user name and password A secret word or code used to serve as a security measure against unauthorized access to data. It is normally managed by the operating system or DBMS. However, the computer can only verify the legitimacy of the password, not the legitimacy of the user. See NCSC.  being supplied, and secondly would have alerted the bank to the security problem in the system upgrade, details without the user name and password being supplied, and secondly would have alerted the bank to the security problem in the system upgrade.

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Title Annotation:Security
Publication:Database and Network Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:Dec 1, 2004
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