Identity theft protection firm LifeLock — a company that's built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online — may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers. The company just fixed a vulnerability on its site that allowed anyone with a Web browser to index email addresses associated with millions of customer accounts, or to unsubscribe users from all communications from the company.
The upshot of this weakness is that cyber criminals could harvest the data and use it in targeted phishing campaigns that spoof LifeLock's brand. Of course, phishers could spam the entire world looking for LifeLock customers without the aid of this flaw, but nevertheless the design of the company's site suggests that whoever put it together lacked a basic understanding of Web site authentication and security.
Source: Krebs on Security
(Score: 4, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday August 05 2018, @06:17PM (1 child)
Stop fucking around with businesses nobody knows about and get LinkedIn or Facebook, and give the rest of us a good excuse to not have those accounts.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:24PM
https://www.troyhunt.com/observations-and-thoughts-on-the-linkedin-data-breach/ [troyhunt.com]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/08/facebook-to-contact-the-87-million-users-affected-by-data-breach [theguardian.com]