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Yahoo and Hotmail Filter Flaw

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the shields-up-and-drop-to-impulse dept.

gandam writes "Israeli computer security firm GreyMagic Software has detected a serious security flaw in Yahoo's Web e-mail service and Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail service, which could allow hackers to run malicious scripts on users' computers. I tried sending a mail to my yahoo account and it never reached my mailbox. According to the website, all attempts to contact Yahoo unfortunately failed. Mail was sent to security and secure at yahoo.com and at yahoo-inc.com. No replies were received to date. Works only in IE5, though."

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  1. Works only in IE5, though? by slycer9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Surely that's gotta be wrong! A security hole in IE???
    No freakin' WAY!?

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  2. phew... by rajinder · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...almost paniced, then I noticed:

    only works in IE5 though...

    hmm... <mouseGesture>down-right</mouseGesture&gt ;

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  3. new spamming opportunity by laugau · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just have the malicious code make the browser go to my viagra site and force the user to buy 10 cases. That would make me an ULTRA spammer.

    Once I do this, I will be able to afford that sould I've been eying on eBay all week.

  4. Attacking my Hotmail Account by Kjuib · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they are going to attack my Hotmail Account they are up for a fight! Pr0n and Viagra have a firm hold, and it is going to take a lot to beat them to my Inbox.

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  5. Yahoo's too busy responding to my posts by paulexander · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are obviously diligently searching for the clowns who keep sending me requests from "Yahoo" and "Citibank" to put in my account information, on websites hosted in Russia and Korea.

  6. Re:Myway uses adware. by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thats why you don't have to enter much information when you sign up. It gets it for you..it's a feature...yeah, thats it.

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  7. Re:Sticking with "Old Faithful" is asking for trou by momerath2003 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot is a news service?

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  8. Re:IE vs. Open Systems and Standards by mek2600 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, like most /. folk, I'm using Firefox on BSD on an SPARC.

    Man, I didn't realize I was so lame. I didn't know most people on /. used SPARCs.

  9. Re:IE vs. Open Systems and Standards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Even slashdotters need something to hold the door open once in a while. *pats SPARC Classic*