I've got 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 rights over each PC and no one else has access to my home or office. Therefore it came as a shock to me after I log into my FriendFeed account to create an modification and I revealed I was logged into someone-else’s account. Serious, no funny story, I’m not stupid. I had FULL access. The account is owned by Canadian who sells some stuff. There are 3 feeds coming back into the account all being sent from Ping.fm. I was able to access the full control panel and modification the image, email connected and add or delete feeds. The control panel provided me with the existing email address of its owner, and in fact I emailed him to let him grasp of my access. But after all he hasn’t responded. I’m most likely in a very spam folder. My first thoughts were that I've got spyware and someone is in a position to remotely access my system and use it as their own. I did a full machine scan and there is nothing on my machine. There's no different strange activity occurring so I’ve narrowed the difficulty down to the present 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 in an exceedingly startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch - the results of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T - revealed a very little known security flaw with so much reaching implications for everyone on the Web, not just Facebook users. In each case, the Web lost track of who was who, putting the girls into the incorrect accounts. It doesn’t appear the users might have done anything to prevent it. The matter adds a dimension to researchers’ warnings that there are a number of ways on-line information - from mundane information to dark secrets - will go awry. Many security experts said that they had not heard of a case like this, in that the wrong person was shown a Net page whose user name and password had been entered by someone else. It’s not clear whether such episodes are rare or merely not reported. But consultants said such flaws could occur on e-mail services, for instance, which something similar could happen on a PC, not simply a phone. If this is what’s happening to me then it can happen to anyone. There is a logical explanation for this, and I don’t have it. If someone will, please chime in. Like there aren’t enough security issues we currently have to deal with 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 plague we might point a finger at someone. However currently, primarily based on what’s happening here, we have a tendency to will only purpose the finger at the “Internet” as a culprit. This is freaking me out.
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I have pretty tight controls over my network and access to my 450 login and password accounts. Yes he just said “450”…and counting. I've got full administrative rights over every PC and nobody else has access to my home or office.
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