Second Google Desktop Vulnerability Reported

Google’s PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS (Domain Name System) pinning.
Anti-DNS pinning is an emerging area of security research, understood by just a handful of researchers, said Jeremiah Grossman, chief technical officer at WhiteHat Security. The variation of this attack described by Hansen manipulates the way the browser works with the Internet’s DNS in order to trick the browser into sending information to an attacker’s computer.
PC World - Second Google Desktop Vulnerability Reported

24 February 2007 | Internet security | Comments