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The wild, wild Web: New threats and Old flaws
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By Anonymous Blogger
Published on July 4, 2004
 

The wild, wild Web: New threats and Old flaws

Just when you thought it was safe to wade back in the Web's waters, new threats mingled with old flaws to make surfing no day at the beach.

By Steven Musil, CNET News.com

A malicious program that is making the rounds on the Net can read keystrokes and steal passwords when victims visit any of nearly 50 banking sites.


 Even though all financial sites use encryption built into the browser to protect login data, the Trojan horse program can capture the information before it gets encrypted by the browser software.

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