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FW: "RSS Is Worm Bot's Next Target"
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:16:43 -0500
-----Original Message----- From: zeno () cgisecurity net [mailto:zeno () cgisecurity net] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 9:25 PM To: websecurity () webappsec org; webappsec () securityfocus com Subject: "RSS Is Worm Bot's Next Target" Yahoo news has an interesting article on worm propigation via rss feeds. "David Sancho, senior anti-virus research engineer at Trend Micro, warned that RSS feed hijacking will become commonplace when Microsoft Corp. ships Internet Explorer 7, a browser refresh that will feature built-in RSS support. In a white paper titled "The Future of Bot Worms," Sancho said the IE7 release "will open some interesting possibilities to worm creators." - Yahoo! A whitepaper by Trend-Micro describes the concept more in detail. News Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20051129/tc_zd/166349 Download The Paper: http://www.trendmicro.com/NR/rdonlyres/EEE8DBC3-6948-4F0D-B5F4-0673260B88D5/ 17036/Future_of_Bots_FINAL.pdf Regards, - admin () cgisecurity com http://www.cgisecurity.com http://www.cgisecurity.com/index.rss Syndicated Web Security News _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- FW: "RSS Is Worm Bot's Next Target" Richard M. Smith (Dec 01)
- Re: FW: "RSS Is Worm Bot's Next Target" Florian Weimer (Dec 01)
- Re: FW: "RSS Is Worm Bot's Next Target" Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 01)