Gmail vulnerable to hacking

By Koushik Saha on 25.11.08

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If you’re a Gmail user and you’ve got a domain that’s registered through GoDaddy, you’ve been put in danger – from yourself.

A new security flaw in Gmail has caused a new exploit to run wild. The exploit essentially makes you to create a filter all on your own, allowing unwanted eyes to get access of your Gmail account.

In a nutshell, the exploit steals a cookie from you. Once this cookie has been swiped some malicious code creates a hidden iframe with a url that contains the variables required for Gmail to create a filter for your account. Once this is done, the hacker has free reign over your personal emails and whatever else you might associate with your Gmail account.While this is clearly the shorthand version, be sure to check out the full rundown. If you’re one of the many that uses both Gmail and GoDaddy, we’d suggest that you take some time to check it out.


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Login Multiple Google Accounts Using Firefox

By Koushik Saha on 17.4.08

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Many times we have multiple Google accounts of Gmail or Orkut or Google Groups etc. & we wish to access them simultaneously. One solution can be login into different accounts using different browsers but if you want to access the accounts using the same browser, then go for the trick below.

Step 1:

Open System properties ( Right clicking my computer >> Properties), choose tab advanced, click to environment variables button. In system variables section, click new. Type this information to each textbox.


variable name: "moz_no_remote" (should be all small letters and without quotes).

variable value: 1Step 2:

open Firefox Shortcut properties (create a shortcut of Firefox and right click on it, goto properties). Add extension -p to command line (like "c: \ program files \ mozilla firefox \ firefox.exe" -p). Press Ok.

Step 3:

When you will open Firefox it will prompt for profile selection create a new profile, open Firefox using new profile, login to Gmail / Orkut.

Create as many profiles as you want to access different Google accounts. Remember, new profiles will have default network settings and other settings.


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