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- Security researcher Leigh-Anne Galloway discovered a flaw within the site that makes it alarmingly easy for just about anybody — who knows when you were born — to gain access to your account. Galloway explained the flaw, which she says she’s been privately trying to get Myspace to fix for months, on her blog.
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Jul 17, 2017 · If you know someone's date of birth, you can crack their Myspace account. Remember when Myspace suffered one of the largest user data breaches ever? Around 360 million...
Jul 18, 2017 · A security vulnerability in Myspace allowed access to old accounts with just a name, account name, and date of birth.
Jul 17, 2017 · Security researcher Leigh-Anne Galloway discovered a flaw within the site that makes it alarmingly easy for just about anybody — who knows when you were born — to gain access to your account.
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Security researcher Leigh-Anne Galloway has disclosed a massive flaw in Myspace's account recovery page, that allows anyone to gain access to any account just by knowing the person's birthday.
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This is a complex question because here the term of risk might be understood in 2 ways. You are asking the risk associated to the action of "communicating one's birth date to a company".Are you talking of the overall risk associated to the final result of thisoperation or are you talking of the added risk associated to this sole action.
From the details of your question, you are asking an evaluation of the risk just added by this operation. Since a birth date is a public information, neither secret nor revocable,you can't change in any way the overall risk associated to this information.The risk associated with this operation is then: 0.
This look chocking, but this is due to the fact that "communicating one's birth date to a company" is a risk before the action of one communicating his birth date. The overall risk associated to communication of birth date might be seen asa simplified formula: false secret + bad security + crosscheck hunt + personnal communication and my estimate o...
My bank is using my birth date as an identification mechanism.I explained them why I trust them less than others because of this false secret they are selling to naive customers and the risk they are creating. They didn't change. They registered the information very politely. The risk that I switch bank is increasing every day. The risk that this p...
Jul 17, 2017 · Myspace Security Flaw Allows For Easy Account Takeover (Yes, Myspace) News. By Nathaniel Mott. published 17 July 2017. Comments (2) How many people know your birthday? Well, according to a...
Jul 18, 2017 · Security researcher Leigh-Anne Galloway first spotted the flaw, posting to her blog how that, with no more than a user's full name, email address and date of birth (all quite readily available...
