Hacked Advertisements enter Internet


	Hacked Advertisements enter Internet

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4-15-2008 8:24 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/0f6cad59-f536-4320-9cb2-c5eda6ce7a5b/D7524B53-B389-4001-AB99-9D53769C7F70/" 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://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/07/myspace_ad_served_adware_to_mo.html" href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/07/myspace_ad_served_adware_to_mo.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/07/myspace_ad_served_adware_to_mo.html"><P>An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows, according to data collected by <A href="http://www.idefense.com">iDefense</A>, a <STRONG>Verisign</STRONG> company.   </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/07/myspace_ad_served_adware_to_mo.html"><H3>Hacked Ad Seen on MySpace Served Spyware to a Million</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/07/myspace_ad_served_adware_to_mo.html"><P><STRONG>Michael La Pilla</STRONG>, an iDefense "malcode" analyst, said he first spotted the attack Sunday while browsing MySpace on a <STRONG>Linux</STRONG>-based machine. When he browsed a page headed with an ad for <STRONG>DeckOutYourDeck.com</STRONG>, his browser asked him whether he wanted to open a file called <STRONG>exp.wmf</STRONG>. Microsoft <A href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/01/microsoft_to_fix_windows_flaw.html">released a patch in January</A> to fix a serious security flaw in the way Windows renders <STRONG>WMF</STRONG> (Windows Metafile) images, and online criminal groups have been <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/16/AR2006031600916.html">using the flaw</A> to install adware, keystroke loggers and all manner of invasive software for the past seven months. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D7524B53-B389-4001-AB99-9D53769C7F70/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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