Friday, October 22, 2004

Google Phishing
Just on the heels of a great first Wall Street earnings report, Google aknowledged today that it has some site vulnerabilities for Phishing scams. According to Newsfactor Network: "Two Google site vulnerabilities that could be used to mount phishing attacks have been reported, says the Internet search giant. It already has fixed one, and expects to patch the second shortly. One flaw would allow hackers using JavaScript to change Google site content. This would give potential attackers the power to alter the look of the Google search results page or manipulate search data. A second, similar, vulnerability was reported by UK security firm Netcraft, based on the work of a British computer scientist, Jim Ley." --More Info

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