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Get Safe Online, Abject Failure

June 12, 2014 by Marc Handelman in Blatant Stupidity, Data Security, Information Security

Another superb screed, by way of ArsTechnica's editor-in-chief Dan Goodin, details the terrible failure of the educational site monikered 'Get Safe Online' (ostensibly a password checking facility). Interestingly, when performing checks on user supplied passwords, the geniuses at Get Safe Online also manage to convey those credentials in address URLs, whence the ubiquitous miscreant can abscond with same. Astonishing...

 

June 12, 2014 /Marc Handelman
Blatant Stupidity, Data Security, Information Security
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