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Hackers expose weakness in visiting trusted sites
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Mon Aug 03 12:03:01 2009
Hackers expose weakness in visiting trusted sites
By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer
Aug 1, 2009
www.yahoo.com
LAS VEGAS - A powerful new type of Internet attack works like a
telephone tap, except operates between computers and Web sites they trust.
Hackers at the Black Hat and DefCon security conferences have revealed a
serious flaw in the way Web browsers weed out untrustworthy sites and
block anybody from seeing them. If a criminal infiltrates a network, he
can set up a secret eavesdropping post and capture credit card numbers,
passwords and other sensitive data flowing between computers on that
network and sites their browsers have deemed safe.
In an even more nefarious plot, an attacker could hijack the auto-update
feature on a victim's computer, and trick it into automatically
installing malware pulled in from a hacker's Web site. The computer
would think it's an update coming from the software manufacturer.
For the rest of the article, see:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090801/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_hacker_conference_ssl_hacking
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