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| | Wired News: Lamo Hacks Cingular Claims Site |
 | | Lamo said the hack was similar to his discovery of a security hole at Microsoft in October 2001, where the server was configured to assume that if a user could reach a certain URL that was otherwise unpublished on the Internet, that user must be authorized to do so and must already be logged in. |
 | | Cingular spokesman Tony Carter said lock\line has enabled password protection for the site and has now incorporated "obfuscation techniques" that scramble URLs so that, even in the event of a site compromise, additional records should not be easily accessible. |
 | | Carter says Cingular has nearly 40,000 vendors, and staying on top of them all is an "arduous" task, which the company continues to evaluate. |
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