New Security Holes Put PC Users at Risk
iSEC security researcher David Thiel told Black Hat attendees that the lack of control over video content on sites like YouTube and MySpace can
put users at risk.
The media streaming security issues highlighted at the Black Hat conference point to the need for media player vendors to keep up to date on their patches, said Gartner's Paul Proctor. "If you can find a vulnerability in a codec -- one that can pass executable code through to the media player -- then anybody can insert that into a Web site."
New Security Holes Put PC Users at Risk 
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