Second Google Desktop attack reported


	Second Google Desktop attack reported

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3-14-2007 4:54 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2e174b30-a55f-4200-ad3a-51f2ab0fed2e/495C5AF8-8FB7-4B0A-8577-FA141599E79A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/23/HNsecondgoogledesktopattack_1.html" href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/23/HNsecondgoogledesktopattack_1.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.infoworld.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/23/HNsecondgoogledesktopattack_1.html"><P class="ArticleBody" page="1">Google's PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS pinning that could
                     give an attacker access to any data indexed by Google Desktop, security researchers said this week.
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                     MySpace.com was hit when a fast-moving worm spread through the MySpace community in early December, stealing MySpace log-in
                     credentials and promoting adware Web sites.
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                     very little ability to protect themselves against these attacks" he said. "It's very bad. Even the experts are afraid to click
                     on each other's links anymore."
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