http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/08/biztech/articles/07email-code.html SAN FRANCISCO -- Just days after a serious security flaw was revealed in two popular electronic mail programs, an equally troubling vulnerability has been discovered in Eudora, the most widely used of all e-mail software. The Eudora flaw makes it possible for a malicious computer user with little or no programming expertise to booby-trap an e-mail message by inserting a seemingly harmless link to an Internet location that in fact executes malignant code. This could permit an attacker to destroy or steal data or to otherwise tamper with a personal computer. -- | Patrick Oonk - http://patrick.mypage.org/ - patrickat_private | | Pine Internet B.V. Consultancy, installatie en beheer | | Tel: +31-70-3111010 - Fax: +31-70-3111011 - http://www.pine.nl/ | | "I program my home computer, beam myself into the future" | | Pine Security Digest - http://security.pine.nl/ | | PGP BE7497F1 97 27 CB 46 25 39 66 77 F8 BF C3 93 4A EC 21 D6 |
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