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- New Webmail Security Hole Found - 10 April 1999
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- MAO Enterprises announced today that a security flaw in Rocketmail's free web
- email services at www.rocketmail.com. If you should happen to know the login
- name of an account at Rocketmail which has been inactive for a while, it is
- possible to reactivate the account with no proof that you were the original
- account holder. Simply supply a new password and you now have the address of
- someone else's inactive account. Why is this dangerous? It is possible to pass
- yourself off as the original accountholder, unbeknownst to family and friends
- of the orignal accountholder. In addition, the ORIGINAL PREFERENCES of the
- original account are preserved! This makes it extremely easy to retrieve
- personal data, addressbooks, and other info which were stored by the last
- user.
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- We hope that Rocketmail will strive to fix this problem.
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- M.A.O Enterprises ERT
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