RE: RE: funsec Office 2007 has 0 security issues

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Loose lips, sink ships. ;-)

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Larry Seltzer
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:30 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] RE: funsec Office 2007 has 0 security issues

> > > One thought occurs to me: we - or at any rate I - see comparatively
> little zip encryption with current mailborne malware. 

Looks to me like the author of today's Storm worm outbreak reads funsec.
This is from Ken Dunham's mailing on the attack: "This new variant sends out
copies of itself inside of a password protected ZIP file to evade anti-virus
detection.  E-mails are randomized with different filenames, different
passwords, and different binaries within the ZIP file to evade detection."

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

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