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nukehella
October 30th, 2004, 11:19 AM
So you’ve got a Gmail mail account? Or maybe you’ve just received an invitation? Well, we have some bad news for you: Your mail box is exposed. A major security hole in Google's mail service, allows full access to user accounts, without the need of a password.

"Everything could get publicly exposed – your received mails might be readable, as well as all of your sent mail, and furthermore – anyone could send and receive mail under your name", thus reveals Nir Goldshlagger, an Israeli hacker, on an exclusive interview with Nana NetLife Magazine. "Even more alarming", he explains, "is the fact that the hack itself is quite simple. All that is needed of the malicious hacker, beside knowledge of the specific technique, is quite basic computer knowledge"

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http://net.nana.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=155025&sid=10

MushroomheadXIII
October 30th, 2004, 01:01 PM
I'd like to know how, Goldshagger i thought for a second..hehe. Good article, well, gmail is still in beta, i doubt you can get super security real quick. But hey, sooner or later gmail will get beter. I'm happy with it for now, just needs pop3.

Atarius
October 30th, 2004, 01:46 PM
Worrisome, but I don't keep anything important in my gmail account anyway.

mfgbypooter
October 30th, 2004, 02:42 PM
Go ahead and hack my gmail account. The only thing in it is audio and video files.

cpugeniusmv
October 30th, 2004, 02:53 PM
my cookies are cleared every time i close firefox.

i am unaffected.

Slyder
October 30th, 2004, 06:53 PM
well at least it's still in beta instead of being widely released although everyone and their brother has a gmail account anyways

bmc152003
October 30th, 2004, 10:27 PM
eh i aint got nothin to hide

stecbine
October 30th, 2004, 10:42 PM
Hmmm nothing to worry about here either. My gmail account is filled with jokes & some lame ass shit. hack it all they want they will find my account very boring LMAO

mountain_rage
October 30th, 2004, 10:48 PM
I got a bunch of account confermations in there, and some other junk, gmail has turned into my new routing email for junk.