Google have unwittingly exposed private user names and passwords
In addition to loosing access to it’s own accounts Google can give access to your accounts to other people too.
Not a big deal. Everybody makes mistakes. Oops. Again.
Obviously they reacted pretty fast to that when security experts from Finjan told them about the problem.
Google agreed that they left users’ login and email information absolutely unprotected and publicly available. That information could be easily used to compromise privacy of more than a dozen of users.
Yay Google. That’s what organizing the world’s information is about!
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Jan 25, 02:34 AM |