BUS 237 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Personal Identification Number, Management Information System, Smart Card

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Zorana Svedic

Document Summary

Stealing, misrepresenting, or hijacking the identity of another person or business. In canada, pipeda gives individuals the right to know why an organization collects, uses, or discloses their personal info. A problem with the security of information or the data therein, caused by human error, malicious activity, or natural disasters. Can occur because of human error when someone inadvertently releases data in violation of policy, or when employees unknowingly or carelessly release proprietary data to competitors or the media. A technique for gathering unauthorized info in which someone pretends to be someone else. A common scam involves a telephone caller who pretends to be from a credit card company and claims to be checking the validity of credit card numbers. A technique used for obtaining unauthorized data that uses pretexting via email. The phisher pretends to be a legitimate company and sends an email requesting confidential data, such as account numbers, social insurance numbers, account passwords and so forth.