Menu
Inshorts
For the best experience use inshorts app on your smartphone
inshortsinshorts
Myspace let user accounts be hacked just by typing birthday
short by Vani Vivek / on Tuesday, 18 July, 2017
A security researcher has revealed a flaw in social networking platform Myspace that allowed any account to be hijacked just by entering the user's birthday. The flaw came from Myspace's now-defunct account recovery page that asked for the account holder's name, username, email address, and birthday. However, Myspace didn't check if the correct email address had been entered.
read more at The Verge