14 DAY TRIAL // Yesterday, the Mountain View giant proudly announced that it releases the presentation tool confirmed a long time ago. Today, the same company sadly confirmed that a security hole was already discovered in the service. Well, I can't say a thing about it although it was already fixed by the Google employees because it might represent a threat for Googlers' security. However, Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped, the one who reported the flaw (which was actually discovered by TomHTML) said he quickly informed the search giant to be able to fix it. Anyway, it is proved once again that even if a product is released after one day it can be also vulnerable to attacks.
"You can use Google's Presentations service to grab the name/ Gmail email address of people visiting your website... without them confirming that they want to share their name/ email with you, or share the fact they're visiting your site! Note this only works when the visitor is also signed in to their Google Account, but other than that requires no special programming capabilities (it may or may not work in every context/ with every browser)," Philipp Lenssen wrote in the blog post.
This is not the first security flaw discovered in a Google technology, a matter that shows us even the Internet super giants can be affected by more or less critical holes. Usually, the Mountain View company took attitude very fast and managed to patch the issues before anything dangerous happened so I guess you're still safe while you're using the Google powered solutions.
In the past, it was reported that a couple of hackers were able to access the Gmail accounts of the users and read the subjects of the messages stored into the inbox folders. Also, Google Desktop was affected by multiple holes which were quickly patched by the parent company.