Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Developer: Virgin Mobile USA online subscriber accounts can be easily hacked

The online accounts of Virgin Mobile USA subscribers are vulnerable to brute force attacks because the company forces customers to use weak passwords on its website, according to a software developer. "Virgin Mobile forces you to use your phone number as your username, and a 6-digit number as your password," Kevin Burke, a software engineer at cloud communication company Twilio said Monday in a

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/developer-virgin-mobile-usa-online-subscriber-accounts-can-be-easily-hacked-202637

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