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Comment Creates a bad first impression (Score 1) 160

by Pyrix on Monday December 31, 2007 @02:04PM (#21867846) Attached to: Xbox Live - The Christmas Zombie

Xbox Live is completely fine for 360 (no pun intended) or so days of the year, and some of these new users are going to get bad first impressions of the Xbox Live system. It would be nice if I could play games though, my disc tray will not stay shut and I cannot play any of my new games, woohoo!

Submission + - Serious Flash vulnerabilities affect many websites (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by on Saturday December 22, 2007 @04:56PM

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers from Google have documented serious vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash content which leave thousands of websites susceptible to attacks that steal the personal details of visitors. A web search reveals more than 500,000 vulnerable applets on major corporate, government and media sites. Removing the vulnerable content will require combing through website directories for SWF files and then testing them one by one. Updates in the Adobe software that renders SWF files in browsers are also likely, but they probably wouldn't quell the threat completely. Attack scenarios work something like this: A bank website hosts marketing graphics in the form of a vulnerable Flash applet. Attackers who trick a customer into clicking on a malicious link are able to execute the SWF file but inject malicious code variables that cause the customer's authentication cookies or login credentials to be sent to the attacker. No patch in sight from Adobe, that's the price to pay for depending on proprietary solutions.

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