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Tuesday, August 17. 2004

Another IE/Phishing vulnerability - stay tuned

According to a report and proof of concept by Secunia, a fully patched XP SP1 system is vulnerable to a nasty phishing scheme.

I'm not sure if "rabid" firefox users are actually rejoicing, but it's another reason to switch to something else.

Posted by JaBbA in Phishing, Politics at 10:25 | Comment (1) | Trackback (1)

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This one is still in SP2
2 advisories in 3 days for IE. Secunia has another IE bug - and this one is 'Highly Critical'. It's in Active Scripting. Apparently, a malicious website could drop an executable into your startup folder. Next time you reboot, wham! The PoC code r

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Tracked: Aug 20, 15:18

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JaBbA's Hut

White Hat Liberal Geek Dad

Tuesday, August 17. 2004

Another IE/Phishing vulnerability - stay tuned