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Tom Espiner from ZDNet UK posted an item yesterday that blew me away. He indicated that Wikipedia had a page attacked by hackers that attempted to spread malicious code. Whew … I’m glad the folks at Wikipedia were fast to to fix this problem.
In part, Tom said:
The entry for the MSBlast worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopedia was altered to include false information about a new version of the Lovesan/MSBlast worm, with links to a supposed fix, according to Sophos. The fix was actually a piece of malicious code, the antivirus vendor said in a notice published Friday.
Check out the full text of Tom’s post here
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