Well earlier this month, Google found out that their gMail Service, gMail, had a security flaw which could have let a hacker gather the E-Mail Addresses in another gMail Account and might even let them hack and access the account! They acted quickly on fixing the problem in around 3 hours as soon as a 14 year old, Anthony, had posted the flaw in his blog. This is another flaw by Google which was uncovered by another teenager in less than a week. Not counting the Google BlogSpot Mistake.

It turns out that when you are previewing an E-Mail message which you are sending from a Yahoo! Account, Google Chat will run any JavaScript Code in the message. Please note that this does not work for E-Mails which you recieve from OTHER gMail Accounts, since they will automatically filter this out.

Since Google has already fixed this security flaw, we have recieved a screenshot from Anthony’s blog and you can click on the thumbnail below to view it:

The teenager has posted this security flaw with gMail on his blog for the public instead of privately contacting gMail like he should have. Google has commented saying that he should have contacted gMail instead of publicly letting people know. In that time, a good hacker could have hacked another person’s gMail Account. This was a foolish thing to do.

However, he has recieved a lot of backlinks to his website due to his knowledge as well as a lot of traffic. However, his knowledge in SEO is not that up-to-date since he is wondering why his Google ToolBar keeps changing from PR0 to PR4, as you can obviosly see in this quote:

Just yesterday my blog had a pagerank of 4 from all of the news sites linking to it. Today it is at 0. Could google possibly be up to something. Is google “being evil”? Could this be google’s way at getting back at me?

Either way, his blog has entered the Blogosphere with that one post he made.

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