12Oct Advertlets publishers - Note this post, please
A friend buzzed me if I am signed up with Advertlets and pointed out this post to me. Well, I am not registered with Adverlets. But if you do, please read this post.
Advertlets - A Review..With A Big Login Bug Among Other Things and No I’m not paid to do this…
Just thought that you may all want to take precautions.
And remember, never use the same password for all your accounts.
October 12th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Wow, that’s a great flaw. Anyway, I don’t think anything will go wrong like being hack right?
October 12th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
It has been months but still got bugs like this ah? LOL.
@Wayne: Generally, there are always risks of an account being hacked and I am not just talking about Advertlets account here, but generally. Some strong systems will be almost impossible or harder to hack into while some weaker ones will be easier. When you find a flaw like this, which side of the scale do you think the needle is pointing at?
October 12th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
tenthofmarch - There are lots of people I know who use the same pw for everything. LOL, this post is meant for them.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Yup. I did advice the same thing in my blog many months ago. Don’t know how many people listened but I remember got one “Cikgu” commented said she will change. You more “powerful” than me so people will listen to you better.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
As a programmer who wrote programs for some financial institution, I know how important security is. I also know the many hoops we have to jump thru and the massive headaches we have to endure to get our programs certified as secure enough to be used.
The opposite is true when I write programs for other companies like a startup business. It’s so much easier. The pressure is off since no one is looking over your shoulders and holes are rarely discovered. There will be plenty of security holes that are rarely discovered :)
October 13th, 2007 at 7:27 am
Actually I had a pretty slow day at work yesterday testing out my bug tracker system, basically a system that accepts software bug reports, so I ended up fooling around with Advertlets by applying my User Acceptance Test on that website.
I’m from a small software development house, but we don’t scrimp on testing. The pressure is the SAME anywhere you go and the turnover rate (people getting sacked for crappy work) is pretty high too as we have got standards to maintain.
All I can say is that Advertlets has, or had crappy developers and they probably have their teams of testers on permanent leave. Leaving users to test out their system and putting a beta moniker on it, is one way of showing that.
To lilian, thanks for linking up my post. It seems that Advertlets have solved the problem with a jury-rigged solution. Wonder how long that will hold.
October 14th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
yeah i noticed that too … wah now its out in the open
the dashboard also cannot add more than 10 blogs. wat the fish. nuffnang one, you can
everytime i ask them question from support, takes at least 2 weeks for a reply minimum. their support needs a revamp too
anyway they say the new dashboard is coming out soon. i ask them when? well i’ll update you in 2 weeks time or so! haha
but they’re making me money, so who am i to complain