hackfix-virusnews: Outlook Express becomes attack platform, of sorts
- From: "Christy" <snowz@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 23:23:59 -0400
Outlook Express becomes attack platform, of sorts
By John Leyden
Posted: 12/09/2002 at 16:49 GMT
There's a pleasing symmetry about the latest security
issue involving Outlook Express.
For the last couple of years Outlook (Lookout)
Express failings have been exploited to infect users.
So why not take advantage of its features to send
viruses in such a way that they might fool detection
by AV and content checking tools?
Well that's the gist of a new method of bypassing
many SMTP-based content filter engines, unearthed by
researchers at Beyond Security.
Using a rarely used feature called 'message
fragmentation and re-assembly' (MFR), an attacker can
send emails that will "bypass most SMTP filtering
engines", Beyond Security reports.
Read more here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/27095.html
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Partial Article Reposted with Permission.
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