cPanel Exploit Used to Circulate IE Exploit 95
miller60 writes "In a dangerous combination of unpatched exploits, hackers have used a previously undiscovered security hole in cPanel to hack the servers of a hosting company and use hundreds of hijacked sites to infect Internet Explorer users with malware using the unpatched VML exploit. cPanel, whose hosting automation software is used by many large hosting companies, has issued a fix. It's a local exploit, meaning the attacker must control a cPanel account on the target hosting provider."
firefox (Score:1, Insightful)
Sure there are places where you'll get attacked often and there are others which are unlikely to be compromised but it's not enough in itself to just avoid places that look suspicious.
Re:not remote, M$ is weak link as usual. (Score:1, Insightful)
From http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Advoca cy [ibiblio.org]