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GoogHOle Exploits GMail, Picasa and 200K Other Sites

Giorgio Maone writes "Multiple Google-targeted exploits disclosed in the past 3 days could compromise your GMail account, steal your pictures from Picasa or impersonate you on almost 200,000 big sites which outsourced their search engines (vulnerabilities included in the price). If even Google, a very reactive company when web security matters, does face this kind of problems, how serious is the threat and what can you do, as a "normal" web user, to protect yourself?"

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  1. The real question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do we blame this on Microsoft?

    1. Re:The real question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Simple, wait for Twitter to post and he will tell you. ;)

    2. Re:The real question: by pieaholicx · · Score: 2, Funny

      Too true. Not to mention Microsoft still hasn't accredited Ben Franklin, while Google did.

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  2. Re:Dont use hosted services!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Mail any nekkid pictures to me for safe-keeping.

  3. you should patent that: STMPD by circletimessquare · · Score: 2, Funny

    Security Through Multiple Personality Disorder

    which is of course a joke, but is a philosophically sound observation: you can't steal the identity of someone whose identity is fluid

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  4. Re:Replace 'Google' with 'Microsoft' by fedxone-v86 · · Score: 2, Funny

    someone should mod you '±0 obvious' ;)

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