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UBS sysadmin jailed eight years for virus
Sunday, December 17, 2006
UBS sysadmin jailed eight years for virus

A sysadmin who took revenge on his former employer by launching a crippling virus on to its network, has been sent to prison for eight years.

Roger Duronio had been accused of infecting between 1,000 and 2,000 PCs at US stock-broker PaineWebber, part of the Swiss banking group UBS. The attack, carried out in the form of a virus "Logic bomb", stopped the company’s 17,000 traders from being able to access their systems for the whole of the day that attack took place, 4 March 2002.


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PDFs open critical hole in Internet Explorer
Monday, December 04, 2006
PDFs open critical hole in Internet Explorer


A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader software which affects Internet Explorer users.

As well as causing crashes, the frailty could allow a botnet to take control of the whole computer when a PDF is opened within Explorer.

The hole is present in Acrobat Standard and Professional versions 7.0.0 to 7.0.8, and Adobe Reader 7.0.0 to 7.0.8. Only Microsoft's browser is vulnerable.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/adobe_vuln/
PDFs open critical hole in Internet Explorer | The Register
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So MACs are flawless eh!
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Nice, I can't wait to bring this up to my music-major friend with her MAC that IS SO AWESOME, and is incapable of getting a virus and all that goot stuff....

last year when some AIM virus went around asking you to click a link to a picture... she was like, "yeah, i have a mac so i can't get it, i clicked the picture just for fun"


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November 2006 Clean-Up Completed
Forum Clean-Up Done!

Some names have been removed...others added ( according to activity and how often I see them here )
Mac'D UP's name has been added as it isn't her fault she's unavailable.

Anyone who wears a green shirt and does not have a forum to mod will no longer be a green shirt.

Next Clean-Up in three months.


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