In the recent days, an unusually high amount of Google-related security issues have been reported on the web.
For instance, one developer was reportedly able to insert a
In other words, this stealing from the cookie jar can be risky for the victim, but it must not be completely dramatic in all cases. Even so, it’s another reminder how the growingly powerful Google Account framework not only offers more power to lazy people (you don’t need to sign-in to Google services over and over), but also more power to abusers. All that’s needed to start most of these attacks is a bug or oversight in one of the many Google services, and a victim who visits a prepared webpage. If you want to be save from this, you can always log-out of your Google account when not using Gmail and other services, and try to not view pages you don’t trust (and try not to follow to pages you may think you trust, but which have been sent to you by non-trusted people).
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