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- Sigh. Have you patched Windows today? Bad guys can own your XP computer if you download an mp3, or if IE even *looks* at a hacked website: "if the user browses to a malicious web site with Internet Explorer directly, the attack will work regardless of the Internet Explorer security settings." Say somebody hacks into a popular website running Microsoft's webserver, sneaks in an iframe tag to another compromised computer -- anywhere on the web. |
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- from the you-always-hurt-the-ones-you-l dept.Ex-IT worker charged with sabotage "A former system administrator for UBS PaineWebber was arraigned in a New Jersey federal court Tuesday on charges of sabotaging two-thirds of the company's computer systems in an attempt to crash its stock price. A two-count indictment charged 60-year-old Roger Duronio with being behind the more than $3 million in damage caused when malicious programs placed on some 1,000 of UBS PaineWebber's nearly 1,500 computers became active on March 4 and deleted files. The indictment alleges that the Bogota, N.J. |
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