[nycbug-talk] alright....who did it?

Bob Ippolito bob
Thu Jan 13 11:49:28 EST 2005


On Jan 13, 2005, at 11:36, zperkov wrote:

> A problem with Google's e-mail service, Gmail, let any user query the
> company's servers for information on the last message sent, two
> hackers announced on Wednesday.
>
> The programmers, part of a community site dedicated to the Unix-like
> FreeBSD operating system, found that an improperly formatted address
> allowed Gmail users to retrieve the message body of the last
> HTML-formatted e-mail processed by the server..
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-5534210.html

We already had a thread about this yesterday, "gmail hack be warned".

-bob





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