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Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat

@ 2007/08/03

The attack is actually quite simple. First Graham needs to be able to sniff data packets and in our case the open Wi-Fi network at the convention fulfilled that requirement. He then ran Ferret to copy all the cookies flying through the air. Finally, Graham cloned those cookies into his browser – in easy point-and-click fashion - with a home-grown tool called Hamster.

Comment from Kougar @ 2007/08/05

Just remember if you visit http://mail.google.com before you type in https://mail.google.com, then it is already to late.

Comment from jmke @ 2007/08/03

just surf/use https://mail.google.com and you'll be fine

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