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| Backdoor Hack Shipped With G-Archiver for GMail. |
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| Mar 11th, 2008. A serious Gmail account, hacking backdoor, has been found in the popular mail archiving software G-Archiver. This application, in all its innocence, allows you to download and backup all emails from your gmail account. But apparently the developer included the code to send an email to his email ID with all usernames and passwords. |
| This was brought to the notice of CodingHorror, by one of its reader ! |
| Here is an excerpt of his hair-raising e-mail. |
| "I was looking for a way to back up my gmail account to a local drive & I came across G-Archiver. Upon getting to the inbox I was greeted with 1,777 emails with account information for everyone who had ever used the software and right at the top was mine. I decided to go ahead and blast every email to the deleted folder and then empty it. I may have accidentally changed the password and security question to something I don't remember as well, whoops, my bad. I also contacted google to erase this account as I didn't see a way to delete it myself." |
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| You can see for yourself the image posted below: |
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| This sure looks like a scenario, where there is a completely malicious violation of people's trust. In fact, this is every user's greatest fear when giving out their login credentials. |
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| G-Archiver has posted this explanation of what happened ! |
| "It is urgent that you remove the current version of G-Archiver from your computer, and change your Gmail account password right away.
What happened was that a member of our development team had inserted coding used for testing G-Archiver in the debug version and forgot to delete it in the final release version." |
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| In order to analyze the code, my MVP colleague Strider of TechTalkz, searched around a bit and found its download link. Here is what he found: |
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| "Interesting, isn't it !?" |
| Hopefully, G-Archiver will release a new version very soon. But will the trust still be there ??? |
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