Google: Gmail Hacked and GPhone

During the Black Hat security convention, Robert Graham, CEO of errata security, demoed how to hack a Gmail session and read victim's email. He then even went further in its demonstration by hacking a journalist's Gmail account and using it to send "greeting email" to other journalists attending the convention. To achieve such exploit, Robert Graham was using a "home-made" application, called Hamster, to sniff data packets from the open convention wireless network. He did not need any account or passwords, only the IP address is required to perform such action on almost any cookie-based webmail applications (Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail). Of course when using SSL or encrypted wireless network, such action can not take place, but this demonstration shows how unsecured it is to run webmail on open wireless network; especially considering that Hamster will be released within the new few days.
More or less at the same, the good old rumor of a Google phone being developed was brought back to the scene by many IT-news websites. The original source seems to be from the rather serious business newspaper, the Walt Street Journal. In an article, the journalist reports that Google is currently discussing with phone carriers in order to develop a Google phone based on ad-supported system and providing the usual Google services.
Google might not be targeting directly the iPhone or mobile phone carriers, but rather the quickly growing advertising market for mobile phones. After invading the internet, and more recently the newspaper and magazine ads market, Google might be preparing to take control of mobile phone ads business expected to massively grow in 2008.