Microsoft has fixed a potentially nasty set of authentication vulnerabilities involving Yammer, the "Facebook for business" enterprise collaboration and social networking platform. The flaws - discovered by Ateeq Khan, a security researcher in the Vulnerability Laboratory Research Team - would have allowed hackers to bypass …

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Tuesday 6th August 2013 20:55 GMT Destroy All Monsters

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WHY!

..or rather... HOW could this pass security requirements checks?

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1. Wednesday 7th August 2013 11:11 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Katzenyammer
  
  You didn't receive the "Please review and check security" due to some interception of the message that was down to some flaky OAUTH2 fail hack.... Oh!.. Wait..
  
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2. Wednesday 7th August 2013 11:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Katzenyammer
  
  "HOW could this pass security requirements checks?"
  
  It was in place before Microsoft purchased Yammer. I suspect things are much tighter now....
  
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  1. Wednesday 7th August 2013 19:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: Katzenyammer
    
    Only if no incumbent Microsoft programmers are involved.
    
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