IE Flaw: Hacker Cracks Google Desktop

[engine]

An unpatched design flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser could give malicious hackers an easy way to use the Google Desktop application to covertly hijack user information.
Matan Gillon, a hacker from Israel, discovered the vulnerability in the cross-domain protections in Internet Explorer and published a proof-of-concept exploit to show how Google Desktop can be cracked.

Hacker cracks Google desktop [eweek.com]

[grelmar]

As a temporary solution, he recommends that IE users disable JavaScript or use a different browser.

Where have I heard that before? ;)

[engine]

There's an update on this, according to PCPro story.
PCPro [pcpro.co.uk]

[grandpa]

It's good to see Google take some action to thwart the hack.

I can't believe this thread is in a Google Free Forum

[grelmar]

I will give Google credit for security issues. This isn't the first time Google has been hit by a security vulnerability, and they've always responded quickly (within a few days) to the problem.

Beats the heck out of MSFT spending months bit twiddling to fix virtually any problem.