Hotmail, Yahoo mail -> Users left open to attack via specially crafted scripts

[Shinobi]

A flaw in the way Web-based e-mail services Yahoo Mail and Hotmail filter messages left users open to attack via specially crafted online scripts, a security specialist said Tuesday.

Read More Here... Scary!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4588797/

Thanks,
Shinobi :)

[ghettoside]

thanks for the heads up

[qball15j]

Interesting that's it's webmail this time around and not through a POP client.

The glitch created the possibility of attacks that could have let Web miscreants steal passwords, access the content of e-mail opened by victims or even spread worms through Web e-mail, said Lee Dagon

[Roody]

That's disturbing. :eek: