Gmail bug allows Email harvesting

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While surfing the latest internet news, I found this:

Gmail Bug Exposes Your Email Account to Spammers

and

Quick fix for Gmail Flaw

Ah ha!! That was the reason why I got more and more spam email in my inbox. It was because of the weakness of the Gmail itself. unintentionly, Google had allowed spammers to collect our contacts. As we might knew, Google puts our details into a JavaScript file. If we browsing the internet while we are logged in the Gmail, some bad web site can declare the function “google” and then harvest email addresses from Gmail contact lists.

Luckily, after 30 hours after the reports, Google have fixed the bug. But, those spammers had already have the email addresses anyway!

Category: Google, Gmail

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