31 May 2007

Google Desktop 0day

Well fast on the heels of the Firefox plugin MITM vulnerabilities I’ve been working on some other stuff that I think is interesting and of the same genre. This time I came up with a MITM exploit against Google Desktop that would allow an attacker to... ha.ckers.org web application security lab »
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