Sunday, May 11th, 2008
This is not good. Researchers from INSERT found a vulnerability in the Gmail engine that could allow spammers to forward mail through Google, thereby bypassing blacklists and being accepted by whitelists. It works by using the same forwarding features that allow users, myself included, to forward their email through ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
A new bot can crack defenses erected by Microsoft to keep spammers from creating large numbers of accounts on its Live Hotmail service within seconds, a security researcher said Friday.
Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense, said the bot broke Live Hotmail's CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Security researcher Billy Rios has discovered a vulnerability in Google Spreadsheets which attackers can exploit using links to crafted tables to steal a user's cookie. According to Rios, the victim has to follow such a link in Internet Explorer. The stolen cookie can be used to access all Google services ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
A serious Gmail account hacking backdoor, has been found in the popular Gmail archiving software G-Archiver. This application, in all its innocence, allows you to download and backup all emails from your GMail account. But apparently the developer included the code to send an email to his email ID with ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Not really, but Gmail does offer a nice way to have as many temp accounts as you feel like creating.? This is?great for registering at sites that might end up spamming you.
Let's say I have a Gmail account of username@gmail.com.? Gmail lets you append a "+" at the end of ...
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