17 September 2009, 15:29

Lost+Found: Password shaking, macro viruses and comment spam

Too short for news, too good to lose; lost+found is a round up of useful security information. Today, Password shaking, macro viruses and comment spam

Shake it baby! Apple's iPhone update 3.1 fixes a vulnerability which made it possible to literally shake passwords out of the phone.

In the forthcoming version 3.2, the OpenOffice development team plans to fix a conceptual vulnerability relating to encrypted documents. It's possible to inject malicious code into a file by exchanging macros between encrypted documents.

According to a study by Websense PDF , 95 per cent of all comments on blog's, forum's and message boards are spam or malicious content. Websense says that the data was obtained from customer installations of their ThreatSeeker system.