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12-03-2005, 09:48 PM
IE Bug Lets Hackers Phish With Google Desktop (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123826,00.asp)
Hacker could scan your hard drive and steal sensitive info.
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Friday, December 02, 2005
A bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser gives phishers a way to scan the hard drives of Google Desktop users, according to an Israeli hacker. Because of a flaw in the way IE processes Web pages, a malicious Web site could use the attack to steal sensitive information like credit card numbers or passwords from the hard drives of its visitors.
"Google Desktop (http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,122374,00.asp) users who use IE are currently completely exposed," wrote hacker Matan Gillon in an e-mail interview. "An experienced attacker can covertly harvest their hard drives for sensitive information such as passwords and credit card numbers. Since Google also indexes e-mails which can be read in the Web interface itself, it's also possible to access them using this attack."
Continued (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123826,00.asp)
Hacker could scan your hard drive and steal sensitive info.
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Friday, December 02, 2005
A bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser gives phishers a way to scan the hard drives of Google Desktop users, according to an Israeli hacker. Because of a flaw in the way IE processes Web pages, a malicious Web site could use the attack to steal sensitive information like credit card numbers or passwords from the hard drives of its visitors.
"Google Desktop (http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,122374,00.asp) users who use IE are currently completely exposed," wrote hacker Matan Gillon in an e-mail interview. "An experienced attacker can covertly harvest their hard drives for sensitive information such as passwords and credit card numbers. Since Google also indexes e-mails which can be read in the Web interface itself, it's also possible to access them using this attack."
Continued (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123826,00.asp)