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Here’s another great PBL case study from my pgcert cybersecurity course, based on this article. In this instance the focus was less on the details of the flaw itself than the circumstances of how it was revealed by the researchers (way too soon) and handled by HTC (way too late). Now, I’m not an expert in the circumstances of this case, but this is a summary of the general points I took from it and successfully presented....

This was a PBL case study in my pgcert cybersecurity course. The problem was outlined in this news article. Essentially at one point mobile providers were using a pre-set voicemail PIN or generating one from a known formula that could be inferred based upon data points such as characteristics of the customer. This would make it a trivial matter to guess a voicemail PIN and access a subscriber’s confidential information....