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Google's Anti-Phishing List Exposes User Data
By: Priyanka Pradhan   |   Jan 24, 2007

Web security firm, Finjin has confirmed recent reports about Google having unwittingly exposed private user names and passwords on the Google anti-phishing blacklist. The firm says such sensitive information could potentially have been used to compromise user privacy, identity theft or financial profit.

Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) researchers discovered that a list of URLs was available and unprotected on Google's servers and immediately informed Google, which in turn, acknowledged the vulnerability. Finjan believes the information on the servers had been gathered using Google's anti-phishing browser extension.

Yuval Ben-Itzhak, Finjan's Chief Technology Officer said, "Finjan became aware of the problem after examining a publicly available list of URLs provided from Google's servers. After examining the data provided in these files, Finjan found that sensitive user information was available on the web with no access protection, including emails, usernames, passwords and session tokens that could be used by hackers to compromise users' privacy."

Google has now fixed the problem, and it is assumed that Google has notified all affected users. Recent tests conducted by Finjan confirm that there is no more data leakage on the current Google anti-phishing blacklist.

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