Springfield, Virginia (PRWEB) November 29, 2011
IceWarp has uncovered vulnerabilities in Google Translate API v2 that allow hackers to easily hijack the solution and expose unsuspecting users to unwanted fees, the global messaging and collaborations solutions provider announced today. IceWarp licensed the Google product to power LiveWebAssist, its hosted business-grade multilingual business chat service, and discovered the flaw while working on the integration issues. The company immediately took steps eliminate the security lapse.
Google Translate is an outstanding product, and we are proud to be in the first batch of its paying customers, says Ladislav Goc, IceWarp President. We were really surprised to find out that virtually anyone with basic hacking skills can steal a customer code. It is relatively easy, since Google Translate is typically using JavaScript. The code is visible to everybody directly in the HTML code of the page.
Example Taken from Google Translate v2 Developers Guide (28th. November 2011)
(http://code.google.com/intl/cs/apis/language/translate/v2/getting_started.html)
IceWarp Discovery: Google Translate Flaw Can Hit Users with Unwanted Fees
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