June 25, 2007 10:45 AM PDT
Security Bites Podcast: When the Web attacks
By CNET News.com Staff
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CTO talks about rise of compromised sites; Apple issues Mac OS X 10.4.10; HP acquires SPI Dynamics; and exploit code plants itself in images.
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The big story this week is that legitimate Web sites are being compromised with links to exploit servers. Roger Thompson of Exploit Prevention Labs, who has been following this trend for several months, talks with CNET's Robert Vamosi about the latest attack based around a tool known as Mpack.
This week, Apple released Mac OS X 10.4.10 with a networking-security update, and a separate patch for Apple TV is being rolled out to fix a flaw patched last month on desktops.
Hewlett-Packard acquired security vendor SPI Dynamics and will make its security technology part of the HP Quality Center software.
And a there's new PHP exploit code that plants itself in firmly with GIF images, something that may be seen on the Internet in the near future.
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