[A2k] Google Antiphishing Site Exposed Private User Data

[Jeff Williams]

All,

  Seems Google messed up again.  No suprise I suppose...

See:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196902585&subSection=Breaking+News

""Google has removed a few user names and passwords posted
inadvertently to a phishing blacklist it compiles and makes publicly
available on the Web. This information was submitted to
Google by Firefox users with the browser's internal antiphishing
toolbar. This feature, developed in cooperation with Google, enables
users to report potential phishing sites to Google's blacklist database.

Google has reportedly implemented a new mechanism detecting login
data in submitted URLs to prevent sensitive information from getting
posted to the list." The article notes that news of this minor lapse may

obscure the ongoing problem of sensitive data exposed on the Web
and findable via Google and other search services."'

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