A 'Scarily Simple' Bug Put Millions of Cox Communications Customers Accounts at Risk

Published: Oct. 10, 2018, 4:34 p.m.

Cybersecurity researchers regularly disclose the bugs they find in different applications and websites across the internet. Sometimes, these vulnerabilities are incredibly complicated to exploit, evidence more of a researcher's expertise than something the average consumer should worry about. In other scenarios, analysts find simple holes that a novice could use to steal information. This is a case of the latter.