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GMail Vulnerable To Contact List Hijacking

Posted by Hemos on from the in-special-circumstances dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "By simply logging in to GMail and visiting a website, a malicious website can steal your contact list, and all their details. The problem occurs because Google stores the contact list data in a Javascript file. So far the attack only works on Firefox, and doesn't appear to work in Opera or Internet explorer 7. IE6 was un-tested as of now."

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  1. Phew! by sorrill · · Score: 4, Funny

    We are lucky it was not Microsoft's Hotmail!

  2. Thank goodness by messner_007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank goodness. I was beginning to think that no one cared about my contacts.

  3. Re:Why do I bother with this site? by Headcase88 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I could do nice armchair job at Slashdot.

    Not with that sentence structure. You only made one grammar error. You could never be a /. editor.
    --
    "When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
  4. Re:Submitter has a problem with Firefox? by islanduniverse · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm glad I've switched back to IE7!