Maliciously Changing Someone's Address

Schneier on Security 2018-05-18

Summary:

Someone changed the address of UPS corporate headquarters to his own apartment in Chicago. The company discovered it three months later. The problem, of course, is that there isn't any authentication of change-of-address submissions: According to the Postal Service, nearly 37 million change-of-address requests ­ known as PS Form 3575 ­ were submitted in 2017. The form, which can be...

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Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

05/18/2018, 07:53

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05/18/2018, 07:20