Cyber security experts find 92 percent successful Gmail hack
US security researchers have found out how to hack Gmail with up to 92 percent success across the Android, Windows and iOS operating systems due to a vulnerability.
The flaw was uncovered by experts at the University of California Riverside Bourns College of Engineering and the University of Michigan, who identified a weakness believed to exist in the app on all major operating systems. They said that the vulnerability could allow attackers to steal users' sensitive data.
The findings will be presented at the USENIX Security Symposium in San Diego on 22 August in a report entitled "Peeking into Your App without Actually Seeing It: UI State Inference and Novel Android Attacks". Although it was tested on only an Android phone, the team believes that the method could be used across all three operating systems because the apps on all of the operating systems can access a mobile device's shared memory.
