Comments on: Gmail cookie stolen via Google Spreadsheets

A security researcher says obtaining one cookie could have compromised all Google services in a new Internet Explorer cross-site scripting attack.

[ppgreat]

And the lesson is ....

... spelled out in the numbers at the end of the story as to which
browser to avoid.

Do you people need a house to fall on you??

[Vegaman_Dan]

Simple answer, wrong question.

This affects more than IE as it turns out. The article is about Google's vulnerability. You can try it out with Firefox, Opera and Safari if you wish as well.

[bruceslog]

the lesson is really

The biggest lesson I learn with these exploits is that Free software and web services, such as and particularly Google, always seems fix these exploits as they arise very quickly, and with class. Whereas the software that we have to pay an arm and a leg for ?? We wait for fixes and patches when the company gets around to it.. which sometimes takes them years to patch. Heck, some well known firms have exploits in their that were revealed many years ago that are still not fixed.

Kudo's to Google again, and again !
Stories like this make me realize who I should trust more.

[gggg sssss]

dont use public websites

for anything confidential. Will salesforce.com be next?

[aintnorainbowdorothy]

Stolen cokies.....

are proven to be from all Browsers. Sure IE had the most, but just how many people really use Google Spreadsheets. Or g-mail for that matter. Safari has a few big holes, as does Opera. All Browsers caqn be broke into, it just happens that the amount of users of IE far outstrips the sum of all users of the other Browsers.