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Botnet 'ensnares government PCs'

Posted by NoDough on · 3 comments
BBC NEWS; By Darren Waters 		Mail this story
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Almost two million PCs globally, including machines inside UK and US government departments, have been taken over by malicious hackers.

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Comments (3)

ColonelPanik ·
And way down near the end of the article is this gem:

"All of the infected machines were Windows-based PCs and the vulnerability was targeting security holes in Internet Explorer and Firefox."
gus3 ·
So, were they separate but similar holes in IE and Firefox, or the same hole in Windows that got exposed by IE and Firefox?

I'm guessing the latter.
hkwint ·
Does anyone have any clue at all how exploitable bugs in FF for Win are related to the chance of the same bugs in FF for Lin being exploitable? I'd like to read on the subject, but haven't found much.

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