Bing cashback exploit discovered, Microsoft sends in lawyers

Participate in the fastest growing Technical Encyclopedia! This website is 100% Free. Please register or login using the login box above if you have already registered. You will need to be logged in to reply, make new topics and to access all the areas. Registration is free! Click Here To Register.

Techno World Inc - The Best Technical Encyclopedia Online! » Forum » THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] » Techno News

Bing cashback exploit discovered, Microsoft sends in lawyers

Pages: [1] Go Down

Author

Topic: Bing cashback exploit discovered, Microsoft sends in lawyers (Read 509 times)

Tanya

TWI Addict

Karma: 1

Offline

Posts: 4190

Bing cashback exploit discovered, Microsoft sends in lawyers

« Posted: November 11, 2009, 01:46:47 PM »

Bing cashback exploit discovered, Microsoft sends in lawyers

A Bing cashback vulnerability has been discovered by Samir Meghani of the Bountii Team. The flaw exists due to a software API oversight that allows users to fake transactions to Bing. Currently, Bing does not detect these faked transactions. The flaw affects both the customer and merchant. According to Samir, in his original posting, "merchants have a few options for reporting, but Bing suggests using a tracking pixel. Basically, the merchant adds a tracking pixel to their order confirmation page, which will report the the transaction details back to Bing." Samir detailed that the process was flawed but didn't pin point exactly how to generate fake transactions. Continue at Neowin
Send via e-mail | Submit to Digg | Add to Live Favorites

http://feeds.bink.nu/~r/binkdotnu/~3/xxiuhr9oUzw/bing-cashback-exploit-discovered-microsoft-sends-in-lawyers.aspx


	Logged

Pages: [1] Go Up

« previous next »

Jump to:

Page created in 0.119 seconds with 23 queries.

Get Latest Tech Updates For Free!