Frauds resulting from failure to maintain password security - reg.

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..... s (Prev.). All Chief Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise. All Commissioners of Customs / Customs (Prev.). All Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise. Subject: Frauds resulting from failure to maintain password security - reg. *** Sir/Madam, On a number of occasions, there have been frauds reported in the various Customs EDI locations involving compromise of password by offic .....

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..... ecurity of an electronic system comes from password compromise and sharing of password. In effect, when an officer shares his password with anybody, he has to, without doubt, be regarded as being in collusion in the fraud that results. The fact that only a few officers have been punished, and that too, not adequately, for password breach may be an important reason why such breaches continue to rec .....

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