AT&T Glitch Connects Users To Wrong Accounts

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 16, 2010 @03:01AM from the reach-out-and-touch-some-one-at-random dept.

CAE guy writes "The Boston Globe is carrying an AP report which begins: 'A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch — the result of a routing problem at the family's wireless carrier, AT&T — revealed a little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on the Internet, not just Facebook users.' Who needs to worry about man-in-the-middle attacks when your service provider will hijack your session for you?"

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Security flaws by __aaqvdr516 · 2010-01-16 05:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It turns out that both of these women who use AT&T phones had both heard of Internet Explorer and Firefox. The nation of Liberia is now warning users who have ever heard of Internet Explorer or Firefox to switch to Liberia's own Liberexplorer for a limited time only. Supplies are running out fast and there is a strict limit of 2^10000th power per customer. Just five easy installments of $10.99 and you're in the clear. Act now!