{"id":4377,"date":"2015-08-13T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2015-08-13T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T00:03:08","slug":"isps-e-mail-password-reset-system-is-a-guy-named-shawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/isps-e-mail-password-reset-system-is-a-guy-named-shawn\/","title":{"rendered":"ISP\u2019s e-mail password reset system is a guy named \u201cShawn\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISP\u2019s e-mail password reset system is a guy named \u201cShawn\u201d<\/h2>\n

Andrew Silverman, a customer of Frontier Communications in Washington state, rarely uses the e-mail address that comes with his Internet service.<\/p>\n

But when he needed to log in to the Frontier e-mail a week ago, he discovered that the Internet service provider has a surprisingly poor approach to password security. Silverman had forgotten the password to this little-used account but found that the Frontier e-mail website provides no self-service method for resetting the password. The only option was to chat with a Frontier employee. And that employee, Shawn from tech support, had access to Andrew’s password in plain text and was ready and willing to share it.<\/p>\n

Read more at – ISP\u2019s e-mail password reset system is a guy named \u201cShawn\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISP\u2019s e-mail password reset system is a guy named \u201cShawn\u201d Andrew Silverman, a customer of Frontier Communications in Washington state, rarely uses the e-mail address that comes with his Internet service. But when he needed to log in to the Frontier e-mail a week ago, he discovered that the Internet service provider has a surprisingly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,6,73],"tags":[850,454,255,1345],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-space","category-news","category-password-management","tag-iam-pam","tag-iam-password-management","tag-iam-security","tag-iam-solutions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-18B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}