07.08.2007 10:20 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Google: Gmail Hacked and GPhone

During the Black Hat security convention, Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, demoed how to hack a Gmail session and read victim's email. He then even went further in its demonstration by hacking a journalist's Gmail account and using it to send "greeting email" to other journalists attending the convention. To achieve such exploit, Robert Graham was using a "home-made" application, called Hamster, to sniff data packets from the open convention wireless network. He did not need any account or passwords, only the IP address is required to perform such action on almost any cookie-based webmail applications (Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail). Of course when using SSL or encrypted wireless network, such action can not take place, but this demonstration shows how unsecured it is to run webmail on open wireless network; especially considering that Hamster will be released within the new few days. More or less at the same, the good old rumor of a Google phone being developed was brought back to the scen

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