Gmail service can be used for organizing mass mailings
The experts on computer security from the Group Information Security Research Team (INSERT) warned that the postal system Google Gmail hackers can theoretically be used to organize mass mailings unsolicited messages.
Experts explain that to filter garbage letters mail systems using "black" lists, which are recorded in the IP-addresses of known spammers and network nodes, distribute advertising. However, among the known postal services such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail there is a "hierarchy of trust" that allows services to exchange messages without any problems with each other. Exploiting the features of work Gmail, experts were able to find a way to send this service accounts with thousands of letters to addresses of other e-mail systems.
Staff Information Security Research Team emphasize that in fact any thief may transform SMTP-servers in Gmail spam machine. In this method, experts found, avoids even the existing restrictions on sending no more than 500 letters from one account Gmail. Representatives of Google to find specialists Information Security Research Team has never commented.
We should note that antispamerskie services have already begun to block some accounts Gmail. This is because kiberprestupnikam managed to find a way to circumvent the system CAPTCHA, applied by Google for protection from automatic registration. As a result, with individual boxes Gmail sprinkle seeds of unwanted messages. However, due to the blocking of individual servers Gmail antispamerskimi services to recipients and some do not reach quite legitimate messages.
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