Re: [News] [Rival] The MSBBC on the 'Windows Ecosystem' (Cybercrime, 320 Million Zombie PCs)
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
How to make something from nothing
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| Many criminals are profiting from technology lapses
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| A whole new way of breaking computer programs intrigues - and worries -
| regular columnist Bill Thompson
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| And it could end up costing a lot of people a lot of money as they fight back
| against a new wave of viruses, trojans, keyloggers and other malware built
| using the techniques he outlines - although of course that isn't Dowd's goal
| in publishing the paper.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7358792.stm
Not checking the return value of malloc()? FFS! Basic. Cardinal. Sin. I
thought it was bad enough that the world's largest software manufacturer
employed dumbasses who don't check lengths of memory before stuffing it
into buffers but this is ridiculous!
I wonder how long this flaw would have taken to be exposed if flash were
open source.
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