Re: Google Accounts Security Vulnerability

[Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l () gmail com>]

I don't know much about the verification mentioned here, but google/gmail
has a 2-step verification, which solves the problem a little bit better imo.
When you try to log in from a new computer you will be prompted for a code
which is sent via sms to your phone.
And that is the only place where you can log in with your google user+pass,
every other application requires an application specific password, which
can be only generated after you successfully log in into the web
interface(with an exception: I remember that trying to add my google
account to my android phone triggered an application specific password to
be sent via sms)..
So if the 2-step verification is turned on, you won't compromise your
account instantly, the attacker has to have access either to your phone, or
a device which is already on your trusted device list..
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=175197
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Thor (Hammer of God)
<thor () hammerofgod com>wrote:

>  Logging on to IMAP mail as one would be doing hundreds of times per day
> is not going to reset the web cookie.  If that is what the OP is reporting,
> I would have to question if his recollection is correct since, by that
> logic, the password reset feature would never be activated since any other
> IMAP logon would clear it.  ****
>
> ** **
>
> If the user logged in, and was presented with the questions as stated,
> then it probably cleared any requirement since he would have to accept
> that.  Unless he is saying that when presented with the questions he
> purposefully did not put them in and tried to logon to IMAP which I find
> odd.****
>
> ** **
>
> Regardless, if you already know the username and password for the email,
> it doesn’t matter anyway no does it?  You could always get the mail via
> IMAP or POP or whatever options were configured in gmail.  There wouldn’t
> be any need to go to the web interface in the first place.   ****
>
> ** **
>
> Now that I know I’m not missing anything, I’ll just let this one die on
> the vine. ****
>
>  ****


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Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu

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