Googlebombing is a technique to get a website ranked #1 on a Google query for a random term. For instance “liar” and “failure” were some of the most popular along with “talentless hack”. Typing in failure would take you to the president Bush’s biography, and liar would do a similar
Previously I blogged about a flaw in Gmail’s contact list that could allow an attacker to steal your contact list. However today’s Google flaw seems to be much worse. The following is a short list of some of the things you can do upon a successful attack. Get in to Google Docs
Earlier I reported that Google had a flaw in which it stores contact details in a JavaScript file on their server. A website could in return declare the function “google”, and put all your contacts and their details into an array. From there it could have been parsed and sent to the
Using a form of cross scripting, it becomes easy to steal a Gmail user’s contact list if they visit a certain type of website. The only condition is you have to be logged in to Gmail at the time of the attack. Gmail is setup to store your contact list
I’ve been using Gmail since 2004 and have always thought it was the best email service. With the large amount of space it offers, and the amazing features the possibilities are endless. The filter feature is easily the best feature of Gmail. You can use it for its purpose –
I was looking at my Gmail account yesterday, and noticed they were up to around 2.7 gigs of email space. So that got me thinking, how many users does Gmail have? Well after doing some research, I found some estimates that Gmail had around ~50 million users. So let’s do
