A security researcher said it took United Airlines nearly six months to patch a serious vulnerability that could have been exploited to access customer information and manage flight reservations. A couple of weeks after United Airlines launched its bug bounty program, software developer and security researcher Randy Westergren started analyzing the company’s Android mobile app […]
United Airlines customer flight records have been lost in a data breach, it has been reported. According to Bloomberg the breach was detected in May or June, and involved flight manifests. Bloomberg reports that the same attackers who stole 21.5 million Social Security numbers and background check information the US government were behind the attack. […]
It didn’t take Jordan Wiens very long to find a vulnerability in United Airlines’ network, but the payoff was one million free air miles for about six hours of work. A vulnerability researcher from Florida, Wiens was the first recipient of United’s highest-level reward in its bug bounty program, reserved for remote code execution (RCE) […]
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