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« Wiki News? | Main | The international internet » November 30, 2004Banners deliver Ads+trojansEarlier this week, the Register - a major hub of internet news and general interest - reported on how the a Buffer Overflow Frame (BOFRA) exploit led to its ad server serving trojans with its ads: Bofra exploit hits our ad serving supplier Crucially, although Microsoft Windows machines are - of course - vulnerable to the attacks, especially through - surprise surprise - Internet Explorer 6 - there remains an exploit in Apache that allows such ads to run from servers. Until the required update patches for Apache make distribution, this situation makes for an extremely serious security threat to internet users - the ability to infect a wide arc of traffic simulataneously across multiple sites. Even still, Analyst form Gartner predicts attacks via the BOFRA exploit will become more common, and aggressively criticised Microsoft, declaring that businesses and home users cannot expect to safely rely on the corporate giant to protect them from security threats.
Posted by brian_turner at November 30, 2004 10:44 AM | Discuss this in the Business, Marketing & Search forumsTrackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: Comments |
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