Gmail, MSN, Flikr... struck by security hole

A security hole in a popular development tool has severe implications for a number of the Internet's most popular applications, including Gmail, Flikr and MSN Virtual Earth. Tens of thousands of companies including AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are likely to be affected by the flaw in CPAINT - a toolkit used to create applications using an approach known as AJAX - short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Rather than a technology in itself, AJAX is an approach to putting more dynamic interactivity into Web applications using a combination of HTML, CSS, Document Object Model, JavaScript, and XMLHttpRequest.

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