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The New York Times Web ads show security breach

From: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:37:55 +0300 (EEST)

"OVER the weekend, some visitors to the Web site of The New York Times received a nasty surprise.
An unknown person or group sneaked a rogue advertisement onto the sites pages.

The malicious ad took over the browsers of many people visiting the site,
as their screens filled with an image that seemed to show a scan for computer viruses.
The visitors were then told that they needed to buy antivirus software to fix a problem,
but the software was more snake oil than a useful program."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/technology/internet/15adco.html?_r=3
 
Juha-Matti

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