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Posted by: office politics

30 November 2005

[url=http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4896]RSS could aid worm attacks[/url]
By John E. Dunn, Techworld

A researcher has claimed that increased support for RSS (really simple syndication) in browsers could lead to a marked increase in botnet worm attacks.

In The Future of Bot Worms, David Sancho, a senior anti-virus research engineer at Trend Micro, pinpoints the built-in support for RSS that will be offered by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7.0, due out next year, as a potentially dangerous moment.

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