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Microsoft in trouble over passport account security

  • 14-05-2003 9:35am
    #1
    Dempsey
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    Any see that story in yesterdays Daily Mirror that Microsoft in trouble with the Federal Trade Commission over failing to put adequate security software on its passport accounts.

    Microsoft were warned to put proper security on to protect the accounts from hackers. They could be fined $11,000 per violation, adding up to $2.2 TRILLON.

    Anyone seen that article, havent heard about it anywhere else.

    This was on the Daily Mirror website. This is what was reported on the 10th May


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  • #2
    oneweb
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    Yup, read a similar article in the Herald. It's reckoned that 200 million accounts could have been exposed. Apparently the flaw was around since September!

    *And people ask me why I don't just use a Hotmail address :rolleyes:

    But where Ronan Price (Internet & Technology column) falls down is his comment:
    If this latest MS madness wasn't enough to give cause for alarm, try this for size: the company has developed an internet-enabled portable toilet.

    The iLoo sounds like a wind-up but it is actually a marketing stunt for MSN
    <snip>
    The toilet makes its debut at UK rock festivals this summer.

    Eh, Ronan, that was soo last week.

    BTW, Microsoft since admitted that it was a hoax on the part of MSN UK. :rolleyes:

    <edit>and then not a hoax (oops)

    It is what it's.



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