Rate limiter patch is a fun MEELLION-user DoS banhammer
By Darren Pauli, 20 Oct 2014 Ruxcon Sydney penetration tester Shubham 'Shubs' Shah has urged US and European researchers to probe their telco's voicemail security after he found accounts held by local telcos Vodafone and Optus were open to attack.The two telcos were vulnerable because design flaws mean neither limited the number of password guessing attempts in their visual voicemail services.
Shubham and fellow Snapchat hacker Huey Peardreported the flaws to Optus earlier this year via the Sydney Morning Herald and later to Vodafone but was unable to travel to the US or Europe to examine local telco security arrangements there.
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