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UK: Security Flaw Exposes 3M HSBC Online Accounts
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:41:50 GMT
Via The Guardian (UK). [snip] One of Britain's biggest high street banks has left millions of online bank accounts exposed to potential fraud because of a glaring security loophole, the Guardian has learned. The defect in HSBC's online banking system means that 3.1 million UK customers registered to use the service have been vulnerable to attack for at least two years. One computing expert called the lapse "scandalous". The discovery was made by a group of researchers at Cardiff University, who found that anyone exploiting the flaw was guaranteed to be able to break into any account within nine attempts. [snip] More: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1841016,00.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- UK: Security Flaw Exposes 3M HSBC Online Accounts Fergie (Aug 09)
- Re: UK: Security Flaw Exposes 3M HSBC Online Accounts Florian Weimer (Aug 10)
- Re: UK: Security Flaw Exposes 3M HSBC Online Accounts Ron (Aug 12)