Hackers discover way to access Google accounts without a password::‘Exploit enables continuous access to Google services, even after a user’s password is reset,’ researcher warns

  • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The main difference that makes this worse is that they can get persistence and maintain access even if the user resets their password (i.e. revoke session tokens). Hackers are usually limited to the fairly short lifetime of the session token (usually a few hours).