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 Post subject: Naughty JavaScript can be planted in IM status messages
PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:34 am 
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Security shortcomings in both ICQ instant messenger for Windows and the ICQ website create a possible mechanism for account hijacking, a security researcher warns.

Levent Kayan warns that the software fails to screen against the inclusion of JavaScript code in user-supplied status messages. The shortcoming means that this JavaScript code might be run on a victim's machine providing they are tricked into opening the booby-trapped status message using a vulnerable ICQ client.
nwz Continued @ The Register

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