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Sunday, April 02, 2006
ISP provider security found wanting
Friday's Australian IT section has a report that a customer of Sydney internet provider Astratel discovered that he could view billing information and call records for other customers by simply listing the customer's phone number in an online query form. Astratel told Australian IT that it had been experiencing difficulty with security locks - "the conversation was then terminated without explanation".
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