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Hacking Web Services

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-it-work dept.

siduri writes "Udi Manber, chief scientist at Yahoo!, gave a great talk on the kinds of hacks that Yahoo sees at the IEEE's Symposium on Security and Privacy. I wrote an overview of his talk for Dr. Dobb's Journal. While some of the message is well-known stuff (like that people will spend a lot of time hacking the most trivial things), the details of what Yahoo has to deal with are really pretty interesting."

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  1. Re:Identity Theft by Elbereth · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You can't get a credit card in my name unless you've managed to get more than my personal information: you've managed to take over my personal home phone number and intercept all telephone calls to me; you've managed to steal all my USPS mail and e-mail; you've managed to forge my signature exactly.

    Sorry, but that doesn't happen.

    Identity theft is urban folklore and one thief getting very lucky with his social engineering.