Juha Saarinen has written an excellent article covering the security issues I had with Sky Television?s web help site. [quote] The help system used by the broadcaster lacks account authentication by password, allowing access from the internet simply by guessing the email address of a registered user. [/quote] Sky have ostensibly fixed the site by […]
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Sky Television: A lesson in frustration
Update: the post below documents my frustrations, but I have since discovered a pretty large security hole in the Sky Customer Help site. The site requires no password, meaning you can guess an email address (say that of John Fellet, CEO, or Fernando Battaglia, Web Development Manager), and view any questions they have posted, or […]
Google and Your Dirty Laundry
Google just released an update to Google Reader. The update automatically displays your ‘shared’ items to anyone on your GMail/GTalk contact list if they also use Google Reader. I saw this update, and thought nothing of it. JASN. Just Another Social Network. That was until I went to read my feeds in Google Reader. My […]
Live Site Search
The Microsoft Live team are really pushing hard to out-innovate Google. Check out the search box at the top of this site, and note the sweet popup DIV =) I like it. They call Live Site Search.