A student and security researcher from Pakistan has found a serious issue with Gmail that makes it possible for a hacker to take over any email address. The vulnerability relates to the way Google handles the linking of a primary Gmail account to another email address for the purposes of message forwarding. In just a few steps it was -- before Google fixed the problem -- possible to take over ownership of an email address by tricking the system into sending out the necessary verification code. If a hacker knows a secondary email address associated with a Gmail account he… [Continue Reading]
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