SMS Vulnerability in Twitter, Facebook and Venmo · Jonathan Rudenberg

Twitter users with SMS enabled are vulnerable to an attack that allows anyone to post to their account. The attacker only needs knowledge of the mobile number associated with a target’s Twitter account. Messages can then be sent to Twitter with the source number spoofed.Like email, the originating address of a SMS cannot be trusted. Many SMS gateways allow the originating address of a message to be set to an arbitrary identifier, including someone else’s number.Facebook and Venmo were also vulnerable to the same spoofing attack, but the issues were resolved after disclosing to their

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    165.0 days ago

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    165.0 days ago

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    165.0 days ago

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    165.0 days ago

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    165.0 days ago

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    165.0 days ago

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