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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. 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.
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