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ActiveX again
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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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