What Are Common Information Security Concerns?
Information security practitioners have their hands full. This section describes some of the concerns that practitioners deal with daily.
Shoulder Surfing
As mentioned previously in this chapter, shoulder surfing occurs when an attacker looks over the shoulder of another person at a computer to discover sensitive information that the attacker has no right to see. This is not a technical exploit. The attacker could be attempting to learn usernames and passwords or discover sensitive information by viewing keystrokes on a monitor or keyboard. Shoulder surfing is a concern at public places such as automated teller machines (ATMs) or self-service credit card terminals at grocery stores.
Shoulder surfing ...
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