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24th September 2008 - Link Blog

Logout/Login CSRF. Alf Eaton built an example page (this link goes to his description, not the page itself) that uses a login CSRF attack to log you in to Google using an account he has created. Scary.

Posted 24th September 2008 at 10:18 pm

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