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GoogHOle Exploits GMail, Picasa and 200K Other Sites

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

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. Fp iPhone what?!!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to from iPhone wood!

  2. Hey, libertarians! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Guess what, you insufferable nincompoops? Our government is itself a product of the market system. Cities like New York, London, and San Francisco are successful precisely *because* of their enormous governments--they compete for capital, talent, and prestige against cities with small, ineffectual governments that are unable to effectively lure and corral said capital, talent, and prestige. And as goes the city, so go city-states and nations: Somalia, being a libertarian paradise, is a rather unpleasant place to live for non-ideologues. Somalians, those who can, vote with their feet and leave.

    Now go suckle Ayn Rand's rotten tits some more and leave the rest of us alone, you stupid fucking Paultards.

  3. I for one, welcome... by apodyopsis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I for one, welcome our new...

    oh gawd, why bother. So damn cliched I cannot even be bothered to finish.

    *sigh*

  4. Re:Safety is an Illusion by clubhi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think the dangers of software are that analogous to walking through downtime and midnight. I think that it's closer to banging a prostitute. The more attractive ones are the most dangerous and you may not know the ramifications of your actions until much later on. You could be spreading viruses to others for sometime with out knowing it, all because of one stupid mistake. OH GOD CINDY PLEASE FORGIVE ME, TAKE ME BACK, I AM SO SORRY!!!

  5. Re:Rock hard and ready by ThirdPrize · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You obviously need to exploit a GoogHOle.

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  6. Just installed NoScript by pembo13 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And Slashdot seems to be triggering NoScript quite a lot.

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  7. Re:you are not working hard enough. by Erris · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ha ha, that's funny.

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