Most Online Retailer Websites are Vulnerable to User Account Theft
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03-21-2006, 12:16 PM,
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Most Online Retailer Websites are Vulnerable to User Account Theft
Quote:Security flaws in the "forgotten password" feature of ecommerce websites leave half the UK's online retailers open to attack, according to security consultancy SecureTest. full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/20/...rity_risk/ related topic: Yahoo! Personals dating site has security problems http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...861.0.html |
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03-30-2006, 11:23 AM,
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Most Online Retailer Websites are Vulnerable to User Account Theft
A more in depth article on the SecureTest findings:
Quote:Most Online Retailer Websites are Vulnerable to User Account Theft through Enumeration Attacks full article: http://www.securitypark.co.uk/article.as...leid=25144&CategoryID=1 |
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04-06-2006, 09:37 PM,
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Re: Most Online Retailer Websites are Vulnerable to User Account Theft
Quote:On an ecommerce site On an ecommerce site you will lose customers forever if you don't have a password look-up page. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. :-\ |
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04-07-2006, 02:49 AM,
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Re: Most Online Retailer Websites are Vulnerable to User Account Theft
The article offers solutions but the software fixes are out of my control. I should forward the article to Monster.
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