{"id":769,"date":"2006-12-05T19:29:30","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T12:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=769"},"modified":"2006-12-05T19:29:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T12:29:30","slug":"worm-uses-quicktime-to-spread-on-myspace-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/worm-uses-quicktime-to-spread-on-myspace-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Worm uses QuickTime to spread on MySpace | CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Worm+uses+QuickTime+to+spread+on+MySpace\/2100-7349_3-6140613.html?tag=alert\">Worm uses QuickTime to spread on MySpace | CNET News.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>update A malicious video on MySpace.com pages changes people&#8217;s profiles when played, embedding itself and adding links to fraudulent Web sites, experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p>The video is a rigged QuickTime file that exploits a MySpace vulnerability and support for JavaScript in Apple Computer&#8217;s embedded media player, Web security firm Websense said in an alert posted on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>When played by a MySpace user, the video adds itself to the user&#8217;s MySpace page and replaces the links on the user&#8217;s profile with links to phishing Web sites, Websense said. Phishing sites are fraudulent sites that attempt to trick people into giving up sensitive information such as log-in credentials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worm uses QuickTime to spread on MySpace | CNET News.com For more info click on above link update A malicious video on MySpace.com pages changes people&#8217;s profiles when played, embedding itself and adding links to fraudulent Web sites, experts have warned. The video is a rigged QuickTime file that exploits a MySpace vulnerability and support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-spyware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}