Finjan Reconfirms Google's Anti-Phishing BlackList Exposed Confidential User Information.

PR Newswire Europe, January, 2007

SAN JOSE, California, January 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Finjan Inc., the global provider of best-of-breed proactive web security solutions for businesses and organizations, today announced that it reconfirms recent reports that Google have unwittingly exposed private user names and passwords on the Google anti-phishing blacklist, which did not use any access protection. Such sensitive information could potentially have been used to compromise user privacy, and could even have been used for identity theft or financial profit (as users generally have a single "web" password for most of their online accounts).

On January 3, 2007, Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) researchers discovered that a list of URLs was available and unprotected on Google's servers...

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