Targeted malware attacks against pro-Tibet groups
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| However, this is not a normal PDF document. It contains a modified version of
| a PDF-Encode vulnerability
| to exploit Adobe Acrobat when the document is opened.
|
| The exploit silently drops and runs a file called C:\Program
| Files\Update\winkey.exe. This is a
| keylogger that collects and sends everything typed on the affected machine to
| a server running at xsz.8800.org. And 8800.org is a Chinese DNS-bouncer
| system that, while not rogue by itself, has been used over and over again in
| various targeted attacks.
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http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001406.html
Related:
Yahoo and MSN helping to root out Tibetan rioters
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| Yahoo China pasted a "most wanted" poster across its homepage today in aid of
| the police's witch-hunt for 24 Tibetans accused of taking part in the recent
| riots. MSN China made the same move, although it didn't go as far as
| publishing the list on its homepage.
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http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080321-yahoo-msn-used-root-out-tibetan-rioters-china
Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government
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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/
Microsoft, Yahoo Tailor Ads To Users' Behavior
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| Google will remain on the sidelines — at least for now. But its Web portal
| rivals are stepping up their efforts to use behavioral targeting to make
| display, or banner, ads more relevant to Web site visitors.
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http://investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&issue=20070823
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml
Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
Yahoo! Answers is rejecting Open-Source options in answers
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| Someone got a computer from a friend that has some serious problems
| with Windows. S/he has none of the disks (XP or restore) and was
| asking for recommendations.
|
| [...]
|
| How is recommending freely available and legal alternatives abuse?
| ImgBurn is also a perfectly legal program, so are Ubuntu and Kubuntu
| (they're Linux).
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http://amandakerik.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/yahoo-answers-is-rejecting-open-source-options-in-answers/
http://tinyurl.com/ywglv7
Yahoo in China human rights case
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| A human rights group in the US is suing Yahoo for alleged complicity in
| rights abuses and acts of torture in China.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6966116.stm
Chinese Internet dissident committed to mental hospital
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| "It is not acceptable that Chinese authorities use such methods to silence
| citizens who have merely peacefully voiced their opinions", expressed the
| organisation in an announcement. Apparently authorities have not abandoned
| the practice of punishing those who have exposed the abuse of power and
| defied censorship by compulsorily committing them to mental institutions.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94864/from/rss09
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