Flaw comes to light in Cingular voice mail
Ryan Kim writes on SFGate.com:
A glitch has surfaced in an upgrade to Cingular's voice-mail system that could allow an intruder to take over a subscriber's account.
In effect, an outside party could access messages in the voice-mail account, change an existing password and record new outgoing messages.
During the past two weeks, Cingular, the country's largest cellular operator, has been moving its old Northern California Cingular customers to a voice-mail service provided by AT&T Wireless, which it acquired last year.
The process, which began earlier this year on the East Coast, has revealed a flaw that allows someone to gain control over a subscriber's voice-mail account if the outside party initializes it before the subscriber sets up his new account.
posted by Fergie @ 10/21/2005 06:56:00 AM
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