Google Smacks Down Santy Worm
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Search engine's actions should halt the worm's spread, antivirus vendors say.
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Days after Google acted to thwart the Santy worm, security firms warned that variants have begun to spread using both Google and other search engines.
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The worm, dubbed Santy, exploits a vulnerability in third-party web servers that use phpBB bulletin board software, a popular package used to create web forums, and has been propagating at a rapid pace, infecting some 38,000 sites in a matter of hours.
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The Santy worm with variants continues spreading on the Internet taking advantage of search engines, including Google, AOL, Yahoo to identify exploitable Web pages.
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A decision by Google Inc. to block certain search queries has helped thwart the spread of the Santy worm, but the public release of the worm&#39;s source code could lead to new attacks, security experts warned on Wednesday.
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A new version of the Santy worm appeared over the weekend and poses a broader threat than its ancestors. A new version of the Santy worm appeared over the weekend, and according to analysis done by some security
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SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. has fixed a security flaw in its Gmail Web-based e-mail service that allowed attackers to hijack users' e-mail accounts.
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The Santy worm, which originally flared up a week ago as bulletin board Web sites found their pages erased and defaced by the worm&#39;s own text, has begun to spread using both Google and other search engines.
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Santy Virus Used Google To Hack phpBB Forums  There is a new internet worm is defacing web bulletin boards across the world, and its using Google as its. The Perl/Santy-A worm (also known as Santy) exploits a vulnerability in a piece of software often used to provide discussion forums and bulletin ...
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Plus: Is Microsoft search engine crawling Google? [News.com Extra]
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InfoWorld - A security company has identified a Trojan horse program that replaces Google text advertisements on Web pages with ads from another source, depriving Google of revenue and potentially causing problems for end users.
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Hoping to assist owners of malware-infected sites to find and eradicate their parasites, Google and the Stop Badware Coalition are enhancing their alert services.
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Pune: Google Inc has announced that it has blocked Santy.A, the Web worm which had identified potential victims through its search and had spread among online bulletin boards using vulnerability in phpBB, an open-source software product managed by the
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Last week a new worm started spreading on the Internet. It&#39;s named Santy, and it attempts to deface websites using specific versions of the popular phpBB bulletin board software.
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Google plugs security holes in popular desktop search software that could open up data on a PC to intruders.
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With four in the last week, is Google the next security buffoon? Analysis Google's desktop search application is vulnerable to an exploit that allows a determined attacker to remotely run most programs installed on a victim's machine. The flaw is one of at least four security holes to visit Google this past week, demonstrating that the search king, despite the god-like aura it enjoys for its pleasing software designs, remains a mere mortal in the security cosmos.â¦
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Santy.A might sound like some kind of holiday cheer but as thousands of Web site operators are quickly finding out, the nasty little worm is only spreading fear.