Hackers Exploiting Facebook, MySpace Plug-ins
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| If you use Internet Explorer (versions 6 or 7) to browse the Web, listen up:
| Criminals are starting to exploit security holes in several widely installed
| IE plug-ins to plant invasive software when users are coerced or tricked into
| visiting one of several Web sites.
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/02/hackers_exploiting_facebook_my.html
Recent:
Be prepared: ActiveX attacks will persist
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| A recent string of high-profile ActiveX vulnerabilities caused the U.S.
| Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to advise users to disable the
| ubiquitous Microsoft browser plug-in technology altogether.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/19/08NF-activex-horror_1.html
ActiveX Controls Out of Control
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| The federal agency's warning to disable all Internet Explorer ActiveX
| controls might as well be recommendation to use Firefox—or Opera or Safari.
| Hey, AOL, are you sure about pulling the plug on Netscape?
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/activex_controls_out_of_control.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Related:
Microsoft ruling may not bolster Europe's new case, warns lawyer
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| The new investigation into Microsoft will look into whether it is legal for a
| company with its market dominance to include web browser Internet Explorer
| with its Windows operating system. It will also look at whether the operating
| system allows for enough interoperability with other companies' software.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/21/eu_microsoft_analysis/
EU round two: Commission probing Microsoft conduct on new issues
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| ...I doubt Microsoft's legal team is surprised by this. After the September
| ruling on the first EC case, I asked Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith
| whether any additional features of Windows could fall under the same scrutiny
| that Windows Media Player received. Smith said:
|
| "I think that it's fair to say that features that the commission regards as
| being present in competing applications may be subject to the kind of
| scrutiny the media player was put under. We basically went through that kind
| of process already for Windows Vista. For example, there was a lot of
| scrutiny on the desktop search feature, on the encryption feature, on the
| various security features in general, on the new file format for portable
| documents and that's probably a fairly indicative list of the kinds of
| features that one would predict they'd focus on in the future..."
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http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2008/01/eu_round_two_commission_probing_microsoft_conduct.html
Interview with ECIS's Thomas Vinje Regarding Opera's Complaint
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| So that is one of the issues Opera is bringing to the EU Commission, that
| consumers are being held back by Microsoft's long history of extending
| standards with proprietary alterations/additions/tweaks and refusing or
| neglecting to support web standards. Mr. Vinje also speaks about Silverlight
| and I really hope the EU Commission looks into what bundling Silverlight
| could do to the Internet.
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| The other issue Opera is raising, of course, is bundling, which is what makes
| it possible for a monopoly to ignore standards others would like them to use.
| While it's unknown if the EU Commission will care about standards as an
| antitrust issue, the bundling issue is very much more straightforward, as Mr.
| Vinje explains...
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071219231703353
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