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Instant-Messaging Attacks On the Rise

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-shock-here dept.

Ant writes "CNET News.com and ZDNet News report that security attacks over instant-messaging (IM) networks became more prevalent in 2005, according to a new study. MSN experienced the largest number of IM security incidents in both 2004 and 2005, while year-on-year incident growth rates were largest on AIM."

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  1. Simple Fix by jimbolauski · · Score: 3, Funny

    FTA:
        "We recommend that customers do not click on attachments or links in IM without confirming their validity with the person who sent them"

    When is a patch going to come out for this problem, it seems to have been plaguing the net for quite some.

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    1. Re:Simple Fix by Phisbut · · Score: 4, Funny
      When is a patch going to come out for this problem, it seems to have been plaguing the net for quite some.

      We've been trying to patch human beings for quite a while now, but they just don't seem to stand still. We'll get to it though.

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  2. Re:IRC, you say?... by ZiakII · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rly? ... cuz my m8 got 0wned by this hacker on AIM. Posted about it on his myspace account if u wanna read it. u think i should tell him 2 go 2 IRC? r ther no hackers there? I'll tell him i heard its saf3r, k? cuz I heard they can get ur IP number on AIM & not on IRC, that true 2?

    OMGZ I just pwned some guy yesterday mebe it was u?, haha what a n00b he told me his IP was 127.0.0.1 and I used some 1337 program to pwn his comp and now I have full permission to do it, I think I'll start deleteing his files. LOLZ!

  3. IM virus protection by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not susceptible to IM viruses, ever since my friend X_Cindy_X_12345 IM'd me with this link to a special program I had to install. It prevents any kind of issue with the(##*@JN#IN#F____+++ NO CARRIER

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  4. Re:Just don't use their client by Ced_Ex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does your work use straight MSN?

    No. My work uses the homosexual MSN.

    More lesbians that way.

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  5. Re:Obvious by ozydingo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't you see their new ad? The new and improved AOL blocks all spyware, foils all hackers, and does you up the butt all with a single mouse click!