Google gadgets going to insecure by Hackers

by Ysk P for Dream Visions    August 12, 2008

It's not that Google is designing insecure programs.

Oversharing is the biggest problem with the web,which often means underestimating security risks.Adding doodads of varying quality to a home page can add a lot of pizazz,but can also be fraught with danger, since they can open a door for hackers.

 So this issue is that users building their own customized applications and disturbing them through Google, might have evil intensions and try to exploit those programs once they're installed on users pages .Many users are inclined to inherently trust what they download from Google.

If a user were to download one of the Malicious gadgets, it could be used in a variety of other attacks, including one where one gadget steals information from another, a valuable attack against gadgets that steals information from another.

Anyhow the company said in a statement that it scans all gadgets regularly for malicious code, and in "very rare" instance in which one found it's immediately blacklisted.

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