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6 Million Virgin Mobile Users Vulnerable To Brute-Force Attacks

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 20, 2012 @07:09AM from the see-also-bank-of-france dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'If you are one of the six million Virgin subscribers, you are at the whim of anyone who doesn't like you.' The Hacker News describes how the username and password system used by Virgin Mobile to let users access their account information is inherently weak and open to abuse." Computerworld also describes the problem: essentially, hard-coded, brute-force guessable passwords, coupled with an inadequate mechanism for reacting to failed attempts to log on.

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Virgins? by bhagwad · 2012-09-20 07:19 · Score: 4, Funny

I read this as "Six million virgins vulnerable to brute force attack :D"
Penetration Testing? by InvisibleClergy · 2012-09-20 07:23 · Score: 5, Funny

I would have thought that Virgin would be less vulnerable to penetration.
1. Re:Penetration Testing? by judoguy · 2012-09-20 07:46 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Not less vulnerable, just less experienced.
  
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  Peace is easy to achieve, just surrender. Liberty is much harder get/keep.
2. Re:Penetration Testing? by marcello_dl · 2012-09-20 07:46 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Like a Virgin,
  Hacked for the very first time,
  Like a Viiiiirgin
  Feel your host ping
  next tooooo miiiiine....
  
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  ---- MISSING MISCELLANEOUS DATA SEGMENT --- [sigdash] trolololol
This is fixed now by diversiform · 2012-09-20 07:32 · Score: 4, Informative

according to Kevin Burke who originally found the issue (scroll down to "Wednesday morning").