AT&T is dropping famed hack - plough - security - expert Kevin Mitnick as a client because it ca n’t seem to stop playscript kiddies from stealing his datum . It ’s clearly the leisurely solution , but is it the right one ? update .
“ They ca n’t seem to secure my account , ” Mitnick told The Register . “ And then instead of doing something about it , they examine to kill the courier and need to boot me off their electronic internet when all I require them to do is to secure my write up so no one gets access to my telephone records . ”
Mitnick aver the cellular explanation has been repeatedly breached over the long time , despite a wide kitchen range of countermeasures he ’s come after to prevent the attacks . In recent long time , he ’s committed the password to memory and has by design not shared it with anyone or kept it stored on a information processing system . …
“ There are so many way into these internet , ” he said . “ They have to take some responsibility , not just silence the the great unwashed that are filing complaints . ”
An AT&T spokeswoman did n’t immediately have a comment . She say she would have to check whether customer passwords are cipher when stored on AT&T waiter .
Oh , how comforting ! dainty to know security is AT&T ’s top precedency .
Update : And here ’s AT&T ’s response :
We investigated Mr. Mitnick ’s claims and determine they were without any foundation . We refused Mr. Mitnick ’s demands for money , but did offer to get him out of his contractual duty so that he could find out a carrier that he would be comfortable with .
We require that any systems contain sore information regarding parole encrypt the data . In addition , we send reminder to our customer explain the importance of using complex , hard to guess parole and change them frequently .
Good to jazz about encrypted passwords , but what ’s this about demands for money ? They did n’t even really handle the main egress here . [ The RegisterviaBoing Boing gizmo ]
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