Month: March 2017

SM Advantage Card Security Issue

SM Advantage Card Security Issue

Vulnerabilities
  February 15, 2017, I was fooling around with my phone and doing my routine check on current points of the accounts that I hold through applications like SM's 'My SMAC'. This routine of mine actually gives me some kind of assurance that the 'expensively' earned points and even my bank balances are still there, untouched, because it pains me to become a victim of 'system problems' which tells you that the points or even the money that you're keeping are gone digitally. Being an SM Advantage member for nearly 11 years, the question came to me, 'How secure is SM's system for keeping my digital information?'. This led me to check out SMAC's website to test a few things and the results were as follow: After visiting a link, I got surprised when presented with information with