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Conference 7.286::dcu

Title:DCU
Notice:1996 BoD Election results in 1004
Moderator:CPEEDY::BRADLEY
Created:Sat Feb 07 1987
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1041
Total number of notes:18759

238.0. "EasyTouch Security" by CECV03::STOKES () Wed Mar 13 1991 16:27

    I called 223-9943 this morning and imagine my surprise when I landed
    in the middle of someone else's session.  Without having to provide
    an account or password, there was Carlos (for you WBCN listeners) 
    listing off someone else's savings account balance to me!!!
    
    I poked around for a while to see if I could figure out what was
    going on.  I even tried to make a $5 transfer from savings to checking.
    Fortunately, I failed because of the password, but the whole thing
    struck me as bizarre and I thought that the DCU might like to know
    about it.
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238.1So, did you call 'em and tell 'em?PEACHS::MITCHAMAndy in Alpharetta (near Atlanta)Thu Mar 14 1991 11:530
238.2CVG::EDRYThis note's for youThu Mar 14 1991 12:2112
    
    This has been discussed before in the conference.
    
    The general consensus was you couldn't do much to someone's account
    without the security code.
    
    Sure, you can get balances, but you don't know who the account belongs
    to...
    
    So it's really no big deal!
238.3What's Easynet got to do with it?CVMS::DOTENwhen great fat cadillacs roamed the earth...Fri Mar 15 1991 07:345
Why does the title of this note have "Easynet" in it - it's got nothing to do
with Easynet... Was "Easytouch" meant? (Isn't that what DCU calls their dialup
service?)

-Glenn-
238.4still going....NPSS::BADGERCan DO!Fri Dec 16 1994 11:559
    it appears that this problem/feature was never fixed.  I dialed into
    someone else's account today =.  I immediately called HQ who said it was 
    no big deal, it happens when someone disconnect wrong.  
    
    I say, the system on DCU's should know if someone disconnects wrong and
    get out of the account.  It may be no big deal, but it doesn't give one
    warm and fuzzies with DCU security.
    ed
238.5Murphy's InsuranceNOVA::FISHERnow |a|n|a|l|o|g|Mon Dec 19 1994 05:224
    aha, now it makes more sense that ET asks for a sec. code to
    confirm transfers. 'course I don't think they p;anned it that way. :-)
    
    ed