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Major Web Vulnerability Effects Yahoo, MSN, Google and More
[ad] I’ve seen this from quite a few sources so it seems it’s fairly legitimate, it seems all major websites have some flaws in the way they implement cookies meaning they are vulnerable to certain types of attack. The only current solution seems to be using full time SSL or https connections full-time, if any […]
Serious XSS Flaw in Google Desktop Allows Data Theft
[ad] Google has fixed a security flaw in its desktop search software that created a means for hackers to rifle through personal files on users’ PCs. A failure in Google Desktop to “properly encode output containing malicious or unexpected characters” created a means for hackers to cross from the web environment to the desktop application […]
Google Fixes Serious Vulnerability in Gmail
[ad] Google started the new year by fixing a serious vulnerability in Gmail. This was quite an interesting case and once again (as everything relating to web apps seems to be nowdays) it was an XSS flaw that allowed malicious attackers to steal your contact list, leading to some pretty bad information leakage. Google has […]