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The problem is Amazon has thousands of poorly trained first-level support staff with far too much power and information. What we need is a global security stan
by pfarnsworth 11y ago
The problem is Amazon has thousands of poorly trained first-level support staff with far too much power and information.
What we need is a global security standard for support staff, with a template as to what information is accessible by staff and what isn't. And what is available to better trained 2nd-level support, etc.
And then each company can say they are certified for this particular security standard, and then you can't get social engineering attacks where you attack one large corporation, get partial information, and then feed that into another large organization to get other information. This was done previously using Amazon, again, to get enough information to take someone's Twitter account, if i remember correctly.
- Merad 11y agoNot Amazon. Essentially every company. Your typical first tier support rep is paid perhaps $9-10 an hour, utterly hates their job, and has access to scary amounts of account information. It doesn't help that call center turnover rates are often so high that it isn't unusual for the median experience of reps to be 6 months, or less. The bottom line really is that so far these kinds of social engineering attacks haven't been enough of a problem for companies to have the slightest economic incentive to improve the situation.