Georgi Guninski, een Bulgaarse programmeur, meent weer een gat in Hotmail ontdekt te hebben. ZDNet meldt:
Guninski, who has made a name for himself by finding security violations in browsers, has found that Hotmail enables Web-paged embedded Javascript code to run automatically.This makes it possible for someone to write Web programs that could do anything from steal passwords to read others' mail. While it's long been known that active Web applets, whether written in ActiveX or Java, have the potential to pry open systems from the inside, this is the first case in which someone has shown that Hotmail is vulnerable to such attacks.[break]Een tip van een Microsoft spokesman:[/break]
"To protect yourself now, you can disable JavaScript, just disable it before using Hotmail, or do not open mail from unknown people when you think it might contain JavaScript".
The latest Hotmail hole opens up because Hotmail doesn't handle the new HTML tag "STYLE." Java programmers and Webweavers use STYLE to insert JavaScript into HTML pages. The solution is to force Hotmail to handle STYLE in the same way it does ordinary JavaScript -- disabling it on arrival.
