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Explorer plus Google equals phishing

By Bhavna Singh
Johannesburg, 06 Dec 2005

Explorer plus Google equals phishing

An Internet Explorer bug has put Google users at risk of a phishing attack, according to a security researcher in Israel.

Matan Gillon published an article detailing a method for exploiting an unpatched Internet Explorer flaw. The flaw could allow hackers entrance into computers running Google`s desktop search tool, reports Technewsworld.

Google has since patched its sites to prevent the exploitation of the vulnerability, but security analysts said another exploit could be lurking in the shadows. Microsoft said it is still investigating the security issue that is affecting the cross-domain protections in Internet Explorer:

Greenpeace surrounds HP headquarters

Hewlett-Packard has defended its efforts to curb e-waste ahead of a planned Greenpeace International protest at its headquarters, reports CNet.

The environmental activist group will demonstrate at HP`s headquarters in Califonia today, to pressure the company into phasing out the use of potentially toxic materials in its products.

Greenpeace is specifically demanding that HP set timelines for ridding its computers, printers and other electronics of brominated flame retardants and PVC plastic. The group has singled out HP because it`s one of the largest PC manufacturers in the world, and its machines contain higher levels of hazardous materials, specifically a flame retardant known as TBBA, than rivals` devices, said Iza Kruszewska, a toxics campaigner for Greenpeace.

Amazon UK Xbox shortage

Amazon UK is facing criticism from Xbox 360 customers who have not got the console they ordered months ago, reports the BBC.

Customers are complaining that Amazon has not kept them informed about shortages on Xbox forums and websites.

Although Microsoft`s Xbox 360 only went on sale in Europe on 2 December many Web sites and shops allowed customers to pre-order a console that would be delivered on launch day.

Wikipedia tightens rules

Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, has made another rare public relations concession as he says the Wkikpdia venture will tighten up its rules, preventing anonymous users from creating articles, reports The Register.

Anonymous edits to existing articles will still be permitted, and articles in the system that have been edited anonymously will remain.

It`s a public relations surrender to John Seigenthaler, a 78-year old former assistant to Robert Kennedy who published an article in USA Today last week describing how his Wikipedia page had been vandalized and the edits gone unnoticed for several months. The changes suggested he had been "suspected" in the assassinations of both RF and JF Kennedy, and also falsely stated that he had lived in the USSR for 13 years.

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