Friday, April 15, 2016

Shortened URLs make it easy to spy on people


Georgiev and Shmatikov were able to find Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive files that were shared with short URLs. But some of those files were tied to folders that had write-access, enabling anyone in the world to drop malicious code into your cloud storage. Naturally, since anything stored online is automatically copied to your desktop, the duo claim that there is a very real risk of “large-scale malware injection.” The pair claim that 7 percent of the OneDrive and Google Drive accounts they scanned were vulnerable in this way.


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Shortened URLs make it easy to spy on people

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