Thursday, June 04, 2009

StrongWebmail CEO's e-Mail Account Hacked via XSS

Ryan Naraine writes on the ZDNet "Zero Day" Blog:


A Webmail service that touts itself as hack-proof and offered $10,000 to anyone who could break into the CEO’s e-mail has lost the challenge.

A trio of hackers successfully compromised the e-mail using persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability and are now claiming the bounty.

The hacking team of Aviv Raff, Lance James and Mike Bailey set up the attack by sending an e-mail to the company’s CEO Darren Berkovitz. When he opened the e-mail, the team exploited an XSS flaw to take control of the account.

More here.

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