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Botnet 'ensnares government PCs'

Story: Botnet 'ensnares government PCs' Total Replies: 2
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ColonelPanik

Apr 23, 2009
9:50 PM EDT 		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

Apr 23, 2009
10:04 PM EDT 		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

Apr 23, 2009
10:36 PM EDT 		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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