passport hacked

Perry E. Metzger perry at wasabisystems.com
Fri Nov 2 18:57:13 EST 2001


http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48105,00.html


Stealing MS Passport's Wallet
By Brian McWilliams

12:25 p.m. Nov. 2, 2001 PST
   
To correct serious security flaws, Microsoft on Friday disabled the
virtual wallet function of its Passport service and has begun
notifying partners about the vulnerabilities, the company has
confirmed. 

The bugs in Passport , a sign-on service used by more than 165 million
people, were discovered this week by Marc Slemko, a software developer
who lives near Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters. Slemko
is a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation.
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