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problem with your request Today I had an unusual situation with my Amazon account. It started when I tried to log in to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to upload some files to my S3 account.After entering my email address and password, I saw the following error:"There
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was a problem with your request Internal Error. Please try again later."Being the understanding amazon login error user that I am, I waited awhile and tried again later as requested. Same problem.I went on to work on there was a problem with your request instagram some other projects, but eventually came back to this because I really needed get the files into S3. Same problem.Here's a screenshot of the sign-in error:Amazon Support: PuzzledInitially, I tweeted my issue because I
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wondered if perhaps it might be affecting multiple users.Anyone else having trouble at signin to @awscloud ? "Internal Error. Please try again later."— David G. Johnson (@TheDavidJohnson) March 18, 2014Nobody else seemed to be tweeting about it, but eventually I heard from @AWSSupport@TheDavidJohnson So sorry to hear that! We'd like to help. Please post to: http://t.co/tJOJOEdtzk and provide the case ID.— AWS Support (@AWSSupport) March 18, 2014The only problem?There
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was no way to log in to the support site to post my issue… because I couldn't log in!So… after I responded via Twitter to that effect, I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email from Amazon support. I'm still not 100% certain how they figured it out, but they managed to locate my account and my email address just from my tweets. (I actually think I got doxxed by Amazon Support, but that's OK!)Ultimately, they called me as well, because I wasn't able to get logged in to reply to the case ID that had been established for me.As Amazon continued to work on their end, I also engaged in some troubleshooting on my own:Tried to sign in from another browser. I normally use Chrome for my daily driver, but I tried to login from FirefoxTried to sign in using Firefox "Private Window" to eliminate the browser cache and any cookies that might be affecting sign-in.I actually busted out Internet Explorer (cringe!). Since this is a fairly recent install of Windows 7, I knew that I had never logged in to an Amazon account from IE, so that also gave me a fair test without the normal Amazon cookies and browser cache
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Reports White Papers Events Black Hat Attacks/Breaches App Sec Cloud Endpoint Mobile Perimeter Risk Operations Analytics Vulns/Threats About Us Contact Us Advertise with Us Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google+ RSS http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/5-ways-to-solve-the-password-reset-probl/240005425 Follow DR: Home News & Commentary Authors Slideshows Video Radio Reports White Papers Events Black Hat Online Learning SECURITY JOBS Analytics Attacks / Breaches App Sec Careers & People Cloud Endpoint IoT Mobile Operations Perimeter Risk Threat Intelligence Vulns / Threats Attacks/Breaches 8/14/201209:50 AMMathew J. SchwartzCommentary2 commentsComment NowLogin50%50% Tweet 5 Ways To Solve The Password Reset ProblemApple, Amazon, and internal error other vendors need to come up with better ways to safeguard accounts against social engineering attacks. But users must help.Technology companies and retailers that sell goods and services to consumers--including cell phone plans, books and music, online file-storage lockers, and cloud-based collaboration software--have a password security problem. The nature of the problem was highlighted by the recent hack of there was a technology journalist Mat Honan, who saw his laptop, tablet, and smartphone get remotely wiped by an attacker--dubbed "Phobia"--who was trying to keep Honan from regaining access to the three-letter Twitter account ("mat") that Phobia hacked for fun. In today's ultra-connected digital world, Honan's fatal information security flaw was to have left a single point of failure--a Gmail account tied to an iCloud account--that Phobia was able to compromise. True, Phobia first socially engineered Amazon into providing the information he needed to impersonate Honan with Apple (name, address, and last four digits of the credit card on file), before resetting passwords and "owing" Honan's digital life. But this security issue isn't limited to the companies that featured in that life hack of Honan. "Everyone is pointing the finger at Amazon and Apple, saying it's a big security hole, they need to make changes. But I don't look at it that way--if it's a security hole, it affects a lot more companies than Amazon," says the threat intelligence manager for Trustwave SpiderLabs, who goes by "Space Rogue," speakin