ActiveX again

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• From: Gregory Sutter <[email protected]>
• Date: 8 Feb 1997 05:25:01 -0500
• Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 05:24:54 -0500
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>	The Chaos Computer Club of Hamburg, Germany showed how
>to move funds from one back account to another - all using an
>ActiveX control. This control tricks finance software Quicken
>into removing funds from a user's account when a user logs on
>to their bank. Microsoft, the developer of ActiveX, heard 
>about the incident after receiving a phone call from someone
>in Germany who viewed the Chaos Computer Club's story on
>German national television.
>	This incident illustrates the potential dangers 
>associated with ActiveX. Unlike Java applets, which are not
>capable of reading or writing to local files, ActiveX can do
>nearly anything. 
>	Microsoft plans to launch an ActiveX education campaign
>in response to this attack.

GReg
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