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Passport's Pocket Picked

Posted by michael on from the department-of-insecurity dept.

emmons writes: "It looks like there's another hole in MS Passport according to Wired. This one allowing a user to steal another user's Passport Wallet, credit cards and all, by getting them to open a hotmail message. Nice." What happens when someone steals the basket with all your eggs?

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  1. Embedded cookies in msword documents? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Sorry, this is offtopic, but it is related to MS and cookies:

    I received a msword doc from a colleague. Since I didn't want to reboot to windows, I tried using a conversion tool (wvHtml) on it, but it crashed. So out of desperation, I ran strings on the doc file. What did I find?

    I found paragraphs of text, of course. However, I also found Netscape format cookies. Some were cookies from potentially sensitive sites, so it seems to me that these cookies shouldn't be in a doc file.

    Is this expected behavior? I am not familiar with the MS Word file format, so I am hoping someone who is can explain.

    Thanks...