Yahoo! Messenger! in! security! flap!
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Its buffer floweth over Yahoo! Messenger users have been warned to update their IM software following the discovery of a serious security bug.â¦
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Vuln researcher questions company's disclosure practices Yahoo! bug crushers have plugged a serious hole in Yahoo! Messenger that made it possible for bad guys to remotely take control of a user's machine. The update became available less than 24 hours after an anonymous hacker posted proof-of-concept code that demonstrated how the vulnerability could be exploited.â¦
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I should have known... The idiots want to rule the Reddit I started for Scripting News readers. I couldn't figure out how to delete it, and while trying, I deleted my account, so forget the experiment, and if anyone at Reddit is listening, could you please delete it for me. (I sent an email but there was no response.) Still diggin!
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Letters: Going deeper on the question of security and operating systems.
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Instant messaging and online chat are well on their way to ubiquity -- especially among the young. How can parents ensure messaging is safe?
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InfoWorld - Microsoft is forcing Windows Live and MSN Messenger users to upgrade to the newest version due to a security update included in that release, according to a posting on a Microsoft blog.
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An invitation to chat by Webcam could come with malicious code.
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A researcher has posted exploit code that attackers can use to hijack Windows machines via Yahoo Inc.'s Messenger instant messaging software.
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It&#39;s called &quot;spim,&quot; and it&#39;s the instant-messaging equivalent of spam--a shotgun blast of unwanted advertisements via instant-messaging tools or chat rooms.
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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo
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Blog: A number of highly critical security flaws have been found in the latest version of Yahoo Messenger, which could allow attackers to gain remote access to users systems.
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Tycho: The recently conducted Xfire chat has now been collated into this easy to digest transcript. In case you wanted to digest it. In addition, the latest page of our insane Prey project has now gone online. Just click the link on the left, for "We Have Visitors."  Also! Your mom is trying to get a hold of you. You should give her a call.(CW)TB
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Blog: Yahoo IM fixed after temporary problems
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NEWS IN BRIEF Code for two exploits in Yahoo Messenger first disclosed earlier this week by security firm eEye appeared on the Full Disclosure mailing list on Thursday.
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Yet another zero-day flaw affecting Yahoo Messenger has been posted online, bringing to nine the number of such vulnerabilities aimed at the IM software this year.
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In an interview this morning from Buenos Aires with BetaNews, Core Security Chief Technology Officer IvÃÂ¡n Arce described a scenario whereby a malicious user could be able to trigger AOL's Instant Messenger into launching Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 Web browser, and then send it commands that enable that user to wrest full remote control of the AIM user's system.
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