{"id":214,"date":"2004-06-29T21:08:35","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T13:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=214"},"modified":"2007-11-12T03:37:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T19:37:03","slug":"nf-web-based-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/214","title":{"rendered":"NF . web-based Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note&#8230;  if you&#8217;re reading your emails using web-based applications and someone out of nowhere gives you a link, I suggest you copy and paste those links on a browser instead of directly clicking on that link.  That is if you can&#8217;t resist the temptation of visiting those links.<\/p>\n<p>There are web-based email applications that give away your account when tracked on referrers (or worse if their websites include sinister scripts).  In the past two days alone, I have found two samples already. I&#8217;m now carefully writing a draft to inform the creators of these web products about this vulnerability and if I won&#8217;t get lazy later, I probably would send this information to them.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I will.  Perhaps I won&#8217;t.  You know the world, when vulnerable, is much more exciting place to dwell in, cyberspace as well. <\/p>\n<p>But for now, you can check your web based emails if they are vulnerable to this kind of exploit.  You don&#8217;t want them seeing those porn-related spam mails of yours and that scantily-clad pictures of Diane Krueger embracing and smooching Shrek, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note&#8230; if you&#8217;re reading your emails using web-based applications and someone out of nowhere gives you a link, I suggest you copy and paste those links on a browser instead of directly clicking on that link. That is if you can&#8217;t resist the temptation of visiting those links. There are web-based email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomscribbles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}