If, like me, you’ve seen a recent increase in spam emails relating to ‘breaking news’ from both CNN and MSNBC you might be interested to know they are related to a potential flaw in how Firefox displays Flash based adverts.
If you click the URL in the email, you’ll be taken to a website aiming to exploit this by putting a rogue URL in your clipboard, so next time you paste a link in and click ‘go’ you’ll be taken to a site advertising rogue anti-virus software.
More details available at the Beeb: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7567889.stm
Earlier this month Critical Path (whom some will remember from some of our early anti-spam trials), announced the sale of certain assets of its SuperNews Usenet access business, including its software, commercial customer base, trade names and other elements of goodwill, to Giganews, an industry leader in Usenet newsgroup services.
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