Friday, February 23, 2007

Google Desktop can be hacked

This very interesting article explains in details how cross site scripting can be used to hack google desktop (if new version of Google desktop in not installed yet):
Overtaking-Google-Desktop.pdf

This demo shows how potential hacker can operate:
Demonstration of Google Desktop vulnerability

The article is pretty impressive and made me think about XSS vulnerability of my own postjobfree.com web site.


Keywords: XSS, Web site security, javascript, hacker attack, XSS, RegEx, hack, Google Desktop.

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