Check out this email....[Fwd: The next big thing for websites]

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Aug 20 01:30:47 UTC 2007


On 08/19/2007 05:29 AM, Wade Smart wrote:
> 08192007 0725 GMT-6 DST
> 
> I need a little help here. I received this email which I have attached 
> talking about a virtual spokesperson. I have been looking at this type 
> of tech for several clients recently. When I clicked on the link it 
> opened MY localhost connection. What I mean is, when I clicked the link 
> and the web page loaded what I saw were my development on my computer.
> 
> Kinda freaked me out. So I dumped the cache on my browser and typed the 
> url in directly. And again I see my own computer files.
> 
> Would someone click on the link in the email and see what happens for 
> them? Someone who uses apache on their system could click on this and 
> see if it does the same thing, and then report back what you see.

No.


> 
> If this is able to do that, this is a MAJOR security problem.
> 

It's a bigger security problem if you post attachements like this to
this list.

I suggest that you find your way over to nanae.






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