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  Filter flaw vexes Hotmail, Yahoo
Time: 09:33 EST/14:33 GMT | News Source: News.com | Posted By: Brian Kvalheim

A flaw in the way Web-based e-mail services Yahoo Mail and Hotmail filter messages left users open to attack via specially crafted online scripts, a security specialist said Tuesday. The glitch created the possibility of attacks that could have let Web miscreants steal passwords, access the content of e-mail opened by victims or even spread worms through Web e-mail, said Lee Dagon, director of research and development for Israeli computer security firm GreyMagic Software. GreyMagic discovered the flaw March 6 and released an advisory about it Tuesday. "Hotmail and Yahoo do everything they can to prevent script from running in an e-mail message," Dagon said, readily filtering the Hypertext Markup Language content that arrives in messages. "We found a way to bypass their filters in order to make script run."

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