Australia: Privacy Breach at Astratel

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Autralian IT.

[snip]

A security hole in Sydney internet provider Astratel's LiveBilling online account management system has seriously 
compromised its customers' privacy.

Astratel customer Nick Adams notified the ISP after he discovered that he could view billing information and call 
records for other customers, by lodging their phone number into an online query form.

Mr Adams also demonstrated that non-Astratel member could access the compromised web query service by transplanting 
code from the page where it was located and placing it at an alternative web address.

"There's no security moving between the pure members section and this LiveBilling part of the web site. You can put 
anyone's phone number and you pull their call records and their account balance," Mr Adams said.

The link to the compromised billing service was still accessible until late today.

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More:
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18665780%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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