There is a fairly in depth discussion of the issue here:
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/01/facebook-att-play-fast-and-loose-with-user-authentication.ars
Not a routing issue, more of a proxy issue, and not uncommon in mobile carrier
networks. Getting security right in a mobile application
Just to rehash this for my own clarity, and perhaps that of others, this is not
a defect in Media Player Classic so much as a defect in the 3ivx codec. If one
were to use a different codec to decode MP4 content this defect would not exist.
This is similar to a defect in Adobe Acrobat Reader
Given the past issues with .zip and .rar unpackers, unpacking an archive should
be considered a risky activity. In some sense, opening, accessing, playing, or
otherwise touching any file from an unknown source could be considered risky.
The list of issues with media files, archive files, (or
Let's see now, user must:
1) Navigate to porn site
2) Download Trojan
3) Either open file or have set 'Open Safe Files...'
4) Must allow install by typing admin password
Oh yeah, this will clearly hit Mac users hard, not. I don't see this as a big
deal, more as Darwin in action (if you will not
I'd consider this uh, untrue. Didn't happen on the last patch Tuesday, nor the
one before. What made this month special? Did those millions of Windows users
who update all coordinate their activity? Not likely.
As to other services that depends on running on consumers computers to provide
In fact this is so well known that many of the charities that accept donated
cell phones provide tools for secure deletion of data prior to shipping the
phone.
http://wirelessrecycling.com/home/data_eraser/
It would be interesting to test the hard reset (factory reset) feature of some
current
I'm looking for a resource that maps Microsoft Security Bulletin numbers (such
as MS06-033) to Microsoft Knowledge Base numbers (such as KB 917283). I
recognize that this may be a one to many mapping since a single SB may point to
a set of possible patches depending on OS version or application
