I have pretty strict controls over my network and access to my 450 login and password profiles.
Yes he simply said “450”…and counting. I have full administrative access over every PC and no one else has access to my home or office.
Therefore it came as a shock to me once I log into my FriendFeed account to create an modification and I discovered I was logged into someone-else’s account.
Serious, no trick, I’m not stupid. I had FULL access.
The account is owned by Canadian who sells some stuff. There are 3 feeds coming into the account all being sent from Ping.fm.
I used to be able to access the total control panel and modification the picture, email associated and add or delete feeds.
The console provided me with the present email address of its owner, and after all I emailed him to let him apprehend of my access.
But in fact he hasn’t responded. I’m most likely in a very spam folder.
My 1st thoughts were that I have spyware and someone is in a position to remotely access my computer and use it as their own. I did a full computer scan and there's nothing on my machine.
There is no other strange activity occurring therefore I’ve narrowed the problem down to this one account.
Meanwhile ABCNews.com reports that a Georgia mother and her 2 daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up during a startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of personal information.
The glitch - the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T - revealed a very little known security flaw with way reaching implications for everybody on the Internet, not simply Facebook users.
In every case, the Internet lost track of who was who, putting the women into the incorrect accounts. It doesn’t appear the users may have done anything to prevent it.
The matter adds a dimension to researchers’ warnings that there are a number of ways in which online information - from mundane information to dark secrets - will go awry.
Many security experts said they'd not heard of a case like this, in that the incorrect person was shown a Web page whose user name and password had been entered by somebody else.
It’s not clear whether or not such episodes are rare or simply not reported. However specialists said such flaws might occur on e-mail services, for instance, and that something similar could happen on a PC, not simply a phone.
If this can be what’s happening to me then it can happen to anyone. There's a logical rationalization for this, and I don’t have it. If someone will, please chime in.
Like there aren’t enough security issues we have a tendency to currently have to accommodate hiccups on the net that log us into someone else’s account as a result of of switching errors.
At least if it was a scourge we tend to might purpose a finger at someone. However now, based mostly on what’s happening here, we have a tendency to will only purpose the finger at the “Web” as a culprit.
This can be freaking me out.