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Security flaw for Google accounts

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, November 20, 2010
13 years ago7,132 views

Visit a site with special code while being logged in your gmail account and you will receive spam, for example.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/20/whoa-google-thats-a-pretty-big-security-hole/
*NOT YET FIXED*

DPic [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

Outsourcing trust, ftw. Someday, i'll migrate off of Google

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

to go where?

DPic [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

Host it myself!

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

According to source article's updated sections it's patched now.

srivathsan [PersonRank 1]

13 years ago #

patched ? they have removed that blog. What if the guy spreads it on all google products and how google will be removing all the blogs ? huh.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

they removed the blog THEN they patched their API.

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

Yeah, that was the procedure Google used.

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