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Hackers discover way to access Google accounts without a password (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Hackers discover way to access Google accounts without a password::‘Exploit enables continuous access to Google services, even after a user’s password is reset,’ researcher warns

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[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So it is session hijacking, something that has been known for a while?

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The main difference that makes this worse is that they can get persistence and maintain access even if the user resets their password (i.e. revoke session tokens). Hackers are usually limited to the fairly short lifetime of the session token (usually a few hours).

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago

Yes, if by for a while you mean 25 years or so.