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Poor password management may have led to bank meltdown

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arshad Noor)
Wed Feb 6 13:30:57 2008

Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:55:14 -0800
From: Arshad Noor <arshad.noor@strongauth.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com

Do business people get it?  Do security professionals get it?
Apparently not.

Arshad Noor
StrongAuth, Inc.

Huge losses reported by Société Générale were apparently enabled
by forgotten low-level IT chores such as password management.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/04/Poor-password-management-may-have-led-to-bank-meltdown_1.html

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