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Code Used To Attack Google Now Public

Posted by timothy on from the clever-scoundrels-still-scoundrels dept.

itwbennett writes "The IE attack code used in last month's attack on Google and 33 other companies was submitted for analysis Thursday on the Wepawet malware analysis Web site. One day after being made publicly available, it had been included in at least one hacking tool and could be seen in online attacks, according to Dave Marcus, director of security research and communications at McAfee. Marcus noted that the attack is very reliable on IE 6 running on Windows XP, and could possibly be modified to work on newer versions of IE."

6 of 128 comments (clear)

  1. Thank god I run IE4! by Peter+Steil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seems like running IE4 on windows 95 has paid off....finally! Now if only active desktop worked properly...

  2. So... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who else suspects that Google is stepping up internal use of Chrome?

  3. Re:This is shocking! by Anci3nt+of+Days · · Score: 3, Funny

    yeah - who eats pizza???

  4. Re:A Question by DeadPixels · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have you seen any of the new IBM commercials? We have to "build a smarter electrical grid", and if that means connecting our generators to 4chan, then so be it!

  5. Re:This is shocking! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it was up to me to do things I enjoy, I would probably play WOW, eat pizza and masturbate all day long. Happy now?

    You're doing it wrong.

  6. I really hope they posted it... by indros13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...to code.google.com.

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