16th Nov 2005, 07:36 PM
|
#1 (permalink)
|
| Administrator!
Join Date: 21 Apr 2003 Location: Penang
Posts: 30,227
Reputation: 2352 Rep Power: 60 | Google Gmail had a serious bug, claim! Quote:
GOOGLE has managed to keep the lid on a serious bug in Gmail that had enabled hackers to take over accounts, read the contents and use them to send spam, since the service started.
The bug was reported by Anelkaos, colaborator of elhacker.net's forum and patched by Google by October 18, however no-one really knew how serious it was until these guys published how it could be exploited
If the page speaks true, Gmail was wide open.
The bug didn't require the hackers to nick cookies or do that much. There is no evidence that it was ever used, but then if the hack was carried out according to these instructions the user would never know unless a lot of spam was sent from their address.
Source: http://theinquirer.net/?article=27725 |
__________________ | Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3.2Ghz | ASUS P5B-E Plus | G.SKILL 2x1GB DDR2 800 | 6 HDDs (2TB+ only ) | NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT | Dell E248WFP 24" Widescreen |
| Intel C2Q Q9450 | MSI P45 Neo3-FR | 2 x 2GB OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Gold Edition | 1 x Seagate 250GB HDD | 2 x Seagate 750GB HDD | 3 x Seagate 1TB HDD | NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT | Cooler Master CM690 chassis | Cooler Master eXtreme Power Plus 550W PSU | Dell E248WFP 24" Widescreen | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Blog : Dashken's I-Blog
Gallery : Dashken's I-Paintings |
| |