{"id":286918,"date":"2018-11-26T09:05:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T07:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=286918"},"modified":"2018-11-26T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T07:06:09","slug":"gmail-bug-allows-senders-to-hide-their-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/286918-gmail-bug-allows-senders-to-hide-their-identity.html","title":{"rendered":"Gmail bug allows senders to hide their identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Software developer Tim Cotten has discovered a Gmail exploit that allows senders to hide their name and email address on emails they send, reports BleepingComputer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Cotten, if users manipulate the “from” header in a specific way, they can hide their details from displaying in the gmail inbox of the recipient, instead just displaying the email’s subject line.<\/p>\n

Once the email is opened, the sender’s address is still left blank, while replying to the message also does not reveal the sender’s identity.<\/p>\n

To uncover the sender’s address, Cotten said, users must navigate to the raw info section of the show original option – a process most Gmail users won’t know about.<\/p>\n

This bug provides significant opportunities for phishing scammers to position their emails as system notifications – asking users to click on links to secure their accounts, for example.<\/p>\n

Just a few days ago, Cotten also highlighted<\/strong><\/a> how it was possible to replace a sender’s address with a fake address in Gmail.<\/p>\n

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Once the email is opened, the sender’s address is still left blank, while replying to the message also does not reveal the sender’s identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":257799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15227,34109,407],"class_list":["post-286918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-cybersecurity","tag-email-scam","tag-gmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286932,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286918\/revisions\/286932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}