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IceWarp Discovers Security Flaws in Google Translate

By Raju Shanbhag
TMCnet Contributor

IceWarp has announced that the company has identified vulnerabilities in Google (News - Alert) Translate API v2.

Looking to power LiveWebAssist, its hosted business-grade multilingual business chat service, IceWarp licensed the Google product and discovered the flaw while working on the integration issues. IceWarp (News - Alert) immediately took steps to eliminate the security lapse, the company stated in a press release.

By interacting live with website visitors in all Google Translator-supported languages, LiveWebAssist, acts as a powerful multilingual Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product that allows companies to better monetize website traffic.

“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.”

To translate a section of text, document or webpage, into another language, Google Translate is a free statistical machine translation service provided by Google. The service was introduced in April 28, 2006 for the Arabic language. For languages other than Arabic, Chinese and Russian, Google used a SYSTRAN based translator, which is used by other translation services such as Babel Fish, AOL (News - Alert), and Yahoo, prior to October 2007. The service limits the number of paragraphs, or range of technical terms, that will be translated.

Recently, the company landed 194 enterprise accounts worldwide exhibiting robust growth in the third quarter of 2011. The company especially experienced good growth in the North America market and registered 6.9 percent growth in 2Q 2011. IceWarp offers organizations an all-in-one highly secure solution that enables their mobile workforce to communicate through any platform. The highly scalable product can easily be used by organizations of all sizes, and delivers ease of deployment, exceptional reliability and scalability.