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Sekerob
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Gmail account owners beware!
----------------------------------------Developer Shipped Backdoor Hack With G-Archiver for GMail Contributed by HappyAndyK 1 hour ago ยท There are 8 comments A serious Gmail account hacking backdoor, has been found in the popular Gmail archiving software G-Archiver. This application, in all its innocence, allows you to download and backup all emails from your GMail account. But apparently the developer included the code to send an email to his email ID with all usernames and passwords! G-Archiver has posted this explanation of what happened: "It is urgent that you remove the current version of G-Archiver from your computer, and change your Gmail account password right away. What happened was that a member of our development team had inserted coding used for testing G-Archiver in the debug version and forgot to delete it in the final release version." Hopefully, G-Archiver will release a new version very soon. The explanation sounds rather bogus.... why insert code to email username/password?
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Microsoft admits it knew about, but didn't patch, bugs
Microsoft's security team acknowledged Tuesday that it knew of bugs in its Jet Database Engine as far bask as 2005 but did not patch the problems because it thought it had blocked the obvious attack vector. A researcher at Symantec Corp. said Microsoft should have fixed the flaws years ago In a post to the Microsoft Security Research CenterMSRC) blog late Monday afternoon ,and Visual Basic. In both cases, Microsoft had told the researchers that it would not fix the flaw because it considered users safe. Nice  full story @ source-link: InfoWorld: Top News |
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