{"id":37,"date":"2004-06-25T08:26:56","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T12:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2004-06-26T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2004-06-26T18:48:19","slug":"new-vulnerability-scary-stuff-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"New Vulnerability: scary stuff this time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1617045,00.asp\">new security vulnerability is being tracked<\/a> that targets PCs, and this time getting infected is as simple as downloading a graphic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When visitors to a few particular Web sites &#8211; including popular auction, shopping and price-comparison sites &#8211; request pages that include the malicious graphics, the code automatically downloads itself onto their machines. Once installed, the code unpacks itself and loads a keystroke logger on the PC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little annoyed by this article, actually, because in common eWeek fashion, you&#8217;re given enough information to freak out, but nothing useful to find out more info.  For example, it mentions that Internet Exporer is vulnerable, but doesn&#8217;t really answer whether other browsers likle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">Mozilla<\/a> are affected.  Is there a patch being devloped or does it already exist?  Are virus scanning programs already on the lookout for this thing yet?   How can you find out if you&#8217;ve been infected?  And specifically what &#8220;popular auction, shopping and price-comparison sites&#8221; is this article referring to?  GRRR!<\/p>\n<p>Also, no other news site seems to be giving this one much attention, so I&#8217;m a little skeptical.  I&#8217;ll keep an eyes out and if more info pops up, you&#8217;ll see it here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: A little bit more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/internet\/06\/24\/internet.attack.ap\/index.html\">can be found on CNN&#8217;s site<\/a>.  It seems to be spreading from websites running IIS.  I&#8217;m just glad I switched to Apache, heh. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new security vulnerability is being tracked for PCs, and this time getting infected is as simple as downloading a graphic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}