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+-   FTP Hacking on the Rise on Wednesday March 12 2008, @08:22AM yahoi

Submitted by yahoi on Wednesday March 12 2008, @08:22AM
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yahoi writes "The disco-era File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is making a comeback, but not in a good way — spammers are now using the old-school file transfer technology to serve up bot malware, and even as a backdoor into some enterprises that neglect to lock down their oft-forgotten FTP servers. Researchers at F-Secure have spotted a new wave of exploits that use FTP — rather than a malicious URL, or an email attachment — to deliver their malware payloads because few gateways scan for FTP attachments these days.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=148143&WT.svl=news1_2
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001398.html"
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