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Example of WMF Exploit SPAM Targetting Schools?


From: Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:50:42 -0500

I thought you might find this interesting. I plan to
incorporate it into some awareness presentations as
an example of mildly targeted social engineering:

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012006.html#00000768

I seem to remember some other type of virus or fraud
using a similar message in the past regarding campus
vandalism.

It was also interesting that it also tried exploiting Firefox.

http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20060101.mozilla_compareto.pm.php


--
Gary Flynn
Security Engineer
James Madison University
www.jmu.edu/computing/security

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