Your Gmail Contact List Can Be Stolen
Yes! It’s true. GMail has a vulnerability to contact list hijacking. Your GMail contact list can be stolen. The only condition is you have to be logged in to GMail at the time of the attack. GMail is setup to store your contact list in javascript files, which is the core problem. More details about the vulnerability, click here.
I’m sure The Google Security Team has been notified of this problem.
UPDATE (2/1/2007 - 2:07am)
- Google Security Team have identified and fixed the problem.
Posted on January 1st, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Off-Topic, Open Source
I am a Free and Open Source Software lover, advocate. I would like to see Open Source grow, and more users being able to use and understand it. I would like to continue to become a part of this growing community, and to grow with it! 
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