An anonymous reader writes "Cyber criminals are populating the Internet with Web sites designed to exploit several recently-discovered security holes in a half-dozen widely used ActiveX plug-ins for Internet Explorer, most notably the one offered by Facebook and MySpace to help users upload photos, Washingtonpost.com reports. The sites, advertised via links in e-mail and instant message spam, also probe for other vulnerable IE plug-ins, including two recently discovered from Yahoo! and one for QuickTime (this one attacks a vulnerability Apple patched just last month). The sites also throw in an exploit against a six-month-old IE flaw.' The story notes that the SANS Internet Storm Center has released a GUI tool to help users safely deactivate the vulnerable plug-ins in the Windows registry." Link to Original Source
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