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If an attacker can entice a user to visit an attacker controlled web page, the vulnerable ActiveX control could be invoked to download an attacker-modified package.

According to Apple's advisory accompanying the patch, the actual vulnerability was not in the Safari browser but in the way ATS (Apple Type Services) handles certain fonts.

I was reading this story
from the article:
"The BBC has deliberately hacked into 22,000 PCs to prove the power of botnets, and the damage that can be done with a network of compromised computers.

Click – BBC News’ technology programme – with the help of anti-virus company Prevx, took over thousands of computers in order to demonstrate a growing problem in the modern world.  read more »

Kevin's site was hacked again last month by defacers of Zone-H. It isn't the first time his site has been hacked. When Mitnick got hack for the first time, it was when he was released from prison. A hacker calling himself "BugBear" added one page to Mitnick's corporate Web site on January 30 2000 with a message, "Welcome back to freedom, Mr. Kevin," and added that "it was fun and easy to break into your box." He included a photograph of a polar bear with two cubs. He did that out of respect for Kevin. This time, there is no sign of respect.  read more »

I found this link on Digg. Techtalkz.com talks about "Spyjax". Okay don't worry it is nothing new, it is only a new story about Jeremiah's CSS history hack. But the thing is, that people keep posting his code everywhere while it isn't performing very well. It only works in one type of browser and not in all, in fact it never worked in any browser I have. So I wrote a better version last year but it seems no one knows about that script. This one is cross browser, so here it goes again: