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A Gmail Feature That Exposed Security of Accounts

  • Forbes, Wednesday, November 9, 2016 4:53 AM
A Gmail feature that allows users to send email from other addresses has been abused by hackers. Ahmed Mehtab, founder of Security Fuse, identified a weakness in the tool that Gmail uses to verify the secondary account. Hackers would simply have to trick Gmail’s servers into returning a piece of undeliverable mail in order to feed malware into the inbox. Google has since patched up the vulnerability. 

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