Instant Messaging Vulnerable To New Smiley Attacks 170
titus writes "Security researchers Yoann Guillot and Julien Tinnes have found a way to encode malicious code into smileys and provided a proof of concept encoder to automate the process. The researchers said their discovery paves the way for IM malware that would be impossible to detect since the malicious code would be 'indistinguishable from genuine chat messages.' I've tested the proof of concept code which works very well. Time to panic?"
In the spirit (Score:3, Insightful)
Publishing these holes only encourages further malicious activity!
Stop. Really, just stop (Score:4, Insightful)
My favorite holiday (Score:3, Insightful)
"Slashdot Is Broken Day!"
Oh please, please someone post a release date for Duke Nukem Forever! Or a story about how Microsoft is publishing their source code base under the GPL.
IT'S NOT TIRED AND BORING AT ALL.
Bugtraq (Score:4, Insightful)
I received this in a bugtraq message earlier and just ignored it, thinking huh, I should read that later. Having read it here I went back and checked it out in full. Did anyone actually run the Ruby code attached to the blog/bugtraq?
The problem with /. April fool's... (Score:5, Insightful)
...is that some of the real stories are less plausible.
Re:Stop. Really, just stop (Score:5, Insightful)
Flamebait??? He's spot on. Mod him "goddamn right!"
Slashdot is operational 364 days a year. One day of silliness and it's BITCHBITCHBITCHBITCHBITCH. Your problem's between the chair and the keyboard.
Re:Stop. Really, just stop (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Stop. Really, just stop (Score:2, Insightful)
Slashdot is operational 364 days a year. One day of silliness and it's BITCHBITCHBITCHBITCHBITCH.
In other words, no different than the other 364 days.
Dammit (Score:3, Insightful)
I stared at the PoC and the outputs wondering how the fuck they thought this was supposed to actually be run by the target, before remembering what day it was.
Re:Geek License Revocation. (Score:3, Insightful)
Then all of the participants had lots of kids. Lots and lots and lots of kids.