[Am-info] BBC: Flaw exposes Microsoft ID service

Roy Bixler rcb@bix.org
Fri, 9 May 2003 08:45:55 -0500


>From the BBC, detailing a serious oversight in the Passport service:

Flaw exposes Microsoft ID service
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3013665.stm
 
Microsoft has admitted that for the last seven months up to 200
million Passport accounts have been vulnerable to plundering by
thieves and malicious hackers.