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[please merge with #20089, Google: attack affected “fewer than 0.1 percent” of Gmail users]

Accepted submission by butthurt at 2017-05-09 10:07:28
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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

According to a Motherboard article [vice.com], the attacker was able to use OAuth [wikipedia.org] to impersonate Google, and a security researcher says

[...] he warned Google directly about this vulnerability in 2012, and suggested that Google address it by checking to [...] ensure the name of any given app matched the URL of the company behind it.

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