Gmail is secure. Netflix is secure. Together they’re a phishing threat

A developer has discovered that Gmail’s email handling creates a handy phishing vector to attack Netflix customers. The problem is that Netflix, like most systems, recognises dots in e-mail handles (so richardchirgwin and richard.chirgwin are different accounts) – but Gmail does not.

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