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Flaw in IE Lets Phishers Access Computers Through Google Desktop

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If you have Google, Yahoo, Windows, or X1 desktop search installed on your computer, you can search your desktop from any mobile phone.

Credit First Service Union (AXcess News) Reno - Thanks to a flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer, phishers have found a way to access computers through Google Desktop. That's according to an Israeli hacker who posted detailed information on how such an attack would work on his blog.

Google Desktop gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, music, photos, chats and web pages that you've viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks. It makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google.

Card Credit Mobile Service According to Matan Gillon, the IE bug concerns Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) format. Phishers can use Google Desktop through CSS formats to gain access to a users hard drive to get sensitive information, like passwords or credit card numbers.

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Card Credit Discover Service Thephisher's can access a person's hard drivewith IE 6 and Google Desktop version 2, and may also work on other versions of Microsoft's browser. Gillon said the hackers could not gain access through other browsers like Firefox or Opera. But a user's computer would not be vulnerable until they visited a malicious web site operated by a phisher.

If you are asked to register with Google you must provide complete and accurate identification, contact, and other information required as part of the registration process. If you are using Google Desktop for Enterprise you may make that available to other users in your organisation, //desktop.google. eulauk.html, or placing that URL as a link on your server to be accessed by individual users. Each user will be required to agree to these Terms and Conditions before they use Google Desktop. Prohibited Actions .

Credit Public Service Union The Israeli hacker said that if you turn off JavaScript inyour IE browser it would prevent an attack.

Certain states allow individuals to implement a security or identity "freeze" that completely locks, or freezes, access to your consumer credit report and credit score. With a credit freeze, including you, unless you unlock your file. When you want to access your own credit, you will need to formally unlock access to the credit file. Certain fees may apply.

Card Credit Processing Service Microsoft's Sandi Hardmeier says that IE 7 contains a Phishing Filter that Internet Explorer users can upgrade to that can help prevent phishing attacks in a story posted on Microsoft's website on November 10. Though Harmeier's article does not mention the hack Gillon described on his blog.

Center Credit Service Union If your worried about phishing attacks or suspect that a hacker has gained access to your hard drive, you can report the phishing attack or find out more about how to prevent hackers from gaining access to your computer hard drive at the Anti-Phishing Work Group.

Card Credit Service Wireless Hardmeier's story on IE 7 and Microsoft's Phishing Filter also has links to Anti-phishing white paper, resources and related documentsand how to Protect yourself from online crime

Credit Security Service Union Google Blogspot makes no mention of Gillon's discovery, as its a one-sided blog where posts are made by Google and here its all cheery, smiles and free T-shirts. There were no post's that we could find on Microsoft's site either.

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