Giveaway of the Day Forums

1. 

   mikiem2
   Moderator

   http://www.neowin.net/news/skype-600126-available-for-download

   **Possibly** related to security hole?

   http://www.neowin.net/news/any-skype-account-can-be-hijacked-with-just-an-email-address
   http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/11/14/security-hole-allows-anyone-to-hijack-your-skype-account-using-only-your-email-address/
   http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/11/14/skype-plugs-security-hole-letting-anyone-hijack-accounts-says-small-number-of-users-affected/
   http://heartbeat.skype.com/2012/11/security_issue.html

   In a nutshell, if you had someone's email address, & knew they had a Skype acct., there was a way to set up a new acct. with the same email address, & then access the original acct. Allegedly this was possible for a couple of months, MS just yesterday/today turned off the reset feature on their servers, but no release notes saying what in this version of Skype is different.

   Posted 11 years ago #
2. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   Get the up date

   Posted 11 years ago #
3. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2225025/skype-says-account-hijack-flaw-fixed

   Skype says account hijack flaw fixed

   http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2215432/dorkbot-ransomware-worm-targets-skype-users

   Dorkbot ransomware worm targets Skype users
   A new worm targeting Skype users with spam messages designed to infect machines with the Dorkbot ransomware has been discovered.

   Security firm Trend Micro discovered the new attack on Monday, after receiving reports of a number of fraudulent messages containing malicious links.

   The message contains the question, "is this your new profile pic?" followed by a malicious link.

   The links reportedly install a variant of the Dorkbot, also known as NRGbot, worm on the users machine. The Dorkbot variant infects the machine with ransomware that locks the user out and encrypts their files, before going on to charge them $200 to unlock the machine.

   http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2224033/microsoft-released-skype-for-windows-phone-8

   Microsoft hurries out half-cooked Skype for Windows Phone 8

   Posted 11 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.