Social Networks Logging Into Inappropriate Profile
By: Mikhail Suvorov
Submitted: 2010-02-11 16:25:41 | Word Count: 547
I have pretty tight controls over my network and access to my 450 ID and password profiles.
Yes he just said “450”…and counting. I have full administrative access over every PC and nobody else has access to my home or office.
Thus it came as a surprise to me once I log into my FriendFeed account to create an change and I revealed I was logged into someone-else’s account.
Serious, no funny story, I’m not dim. I had FULL access.
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The account is owned by Canadian who sells some stuff. There are three feeds coming into the account all being sent from Ping.fm.
I was ready to access the complete dashboard and change the picture, email associated and add or delete feeds.
The dashboard provided me with the existing email address of its owner, and after all I emailed him to let him grasp of my access.
However in fact he hasn’t responded. I’m most likely in a very spam folder.
My initial thoughts were that I have spyware and someone is able to remotely access my computer and use it as their own. I did a full computer scan and there's nothing on my machine.
There's no alternative strange activity happening so I’ve narrowed the difficulty down to this one account.
Meanwhile ABCNews.com reports that a Georgia mother and her 2 daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up during a startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of non-public information.
The glitch - the results of a routing drawback at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T - revealed a very little known security flaw with way reaching implications for everyone on the Web, not just Facebook users.
In every case, the Net lost track of who was who, putting the ladies into the incorrect accounts. It doesn’t appear the users might have done anything to prevent it.
The matter adds a dimension to researchers’ warnings that there are various ways in which on-line info - from mundane data to dark secrets - will go awry.
Many security specialists said they had not heard of a case like this, in that the incorrect person was shown a Internet page whose user name and password had been entered by somebody else.
It’s not clear whether or not such episodes are rare or merely not reported. But specialists said such flaws might occur on e-mail services, for example, and that something similar might happen on a PC, not simply a phone.
If this can be what’s happening to me then it can happen to anyone. There is a logical clarification for this, and I don’t have it. If someone will, please chime in.
Like there aren’t enough security issues we have a tendency to now have to deal with hiccups on the net that log us into somebody else’s account as a result of of switching errors.
A minimum of if it absolutely was an endemic we may point a finger at someone. But now, primarily based on what’s happening here, we will solely purpose the finger at the “Web” as a culprit.
This is often freaking me out.
