Blogs Being Used as Weapons
According to this story I received through the Slashdot mewsletter, it seems blogs are now being used as a vehicle to attack computers. This kind of thing is really getting out of hand these days.
Just thought I would post this to inform my fellow bloggers of the potential threat.
"The BBC has a story which indicates that filtering
firm Websense believes at least 200 fake blogs are in existence which
have malicious code that could infect your pc. Websense said it had seen
examples of some computer criminals creating a legitimate looking weblog,
loading it with keylogging software or viral code, and then sending out
the address of it through instant messenger or spam e-mail. Websense
warned that viruses hosted on weblogs might be a danger because they get
round the filtering systems many firms have created to ensure malicious
programs do not reach employees." From the article: "In separate cases
some blogs were being used as storage lockers holding chunks of malicious
code that the controller of a network of zombie machines wants those
remotely-controlled computers to use."
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Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4441333.stm