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Tags: A "serious security flaw" in Gmail turns Google’s e-mail service into a spamming machine, according to a recent security report.
INSERT, the Information Security Research Team, has created a proof of concept that exploits the "trust hierarchy" that exists between mail service providers. By exploiting a flaw in the way Google forwards email messages, a spammer [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hacking’
May 12 2008
Gmail: Lean, Mean Spamming Machine!
April 27 2008
YouTube security issue in UAE fixed
Etisalat seems to have fixed the YouTube caching issue that resulted in a major security breach which allowed users to see other user’s favorites, videoes, profiles and messages.
ITP reports that Google has issued a public statement as follows:
We have had reports of this problem in the UAE and believe it was due to caching being [...]
April 18 2008
Security Vulnerability in Youtube?!
Hello world. The time is 12:31 AM in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and I have logged in to YouTube to upload a short video. And guess what? I am automatically logged in as another Youtube user that I dont know anything about!!
I kept navigating on various pages in YouTube, and I found that I [...]
March 1 2008
GMail user data exposed in Kuwait
Talk about security – and Google.
GMail users in Kuwait and some other countries reporting being able to read other GMail users’ email without having to log in.
Full Story:http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9875714-7.html
Google claims that an ‘ISP caching problem’ that allowed users to log in to other users’ mailboxes. This talks volumes about Google’s security, doesn’t it? Does this mean [...]
January 9 2008
Opening blocked attachments in Outlook
Some file extensions are blocked by Microsoft Outlook for the potential damage that they may cause. File types blocked include EXE, COM, MDB and many others.
Outlook displays a message that it has blocked the attachment:
Sometimes it becomes necessary to “unblock” a particular file extension. One of the most common requests is to unblock Access database [...]
September 5 2007
Dying hard
I normally don’t blog about anything thats not technical enough. But this was asking for it.
Some of my readers who saw ‘Live Free or Die Hard 4′ said that they were fascinated by the technical possibility of the feats demonstrated by hackers in the movie. I’m not really the movies guy — but yielding to [...]
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