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December 21, 2004

Bad Evil Worm Eats Evil Websites

An without-end of fotorreceptora leather strap that identifies potential victims procurarando Google is spreading between bulletin plates in line using a vulnerable version of phpBB of the program, said professionals of the security in tuesday. The without-end of Santy uses an imperfection, announced last week, in the software that interprets the pages of the fotorreceptora leather strap extensively writings in the language scripting used PHP: Preprocessor Of Hypertext (PHP). However, better that attempt of infect all the places of the fotorreceptora leather strap that function PHP, the without-end preferivelmente whiten a specific application -- the PHP bulletin plate (phpBB) -- and look Google for vulnerable places, antivirus said firm Kaspersky in an indication. Almost 40,000 places can already infected. Using the engine of search of Microsoft to make the sweepings for the phrase "NeverEverNoSanity" -- part of the text of defacement that the without-end of Santy if uses to substitute rasps in places infected of the fotorreceptora leather strap -- of returns almost 39,000 strokes. The click to the sight "Santy.a is spreading ràpidamente, and is causing an epidemic," antivirus indicated firm Kaspersky in a new release published tuesday. "however, this does not affect directly using. Although the without-end infects local of the fotorreceptora leather strap, infect the used computers not to see those places." The without-end emits the Google a specific order of the search, asking for essentially a list of vulnerable places. Armed with the list, the without-end tries then to spread 2 those places using a projected order of PHP to explore the software of the bulletin plate of phpBB. The without-end is the the most delayed twist in using Google because a tool of the attack, known practical one as to cut of Google. It can the first time also be that a program used Google to identify victims for an attack. Around 6 million local seem to function the software of phpBB, in accordance with a search of Google for the phrase "powered for phpBB" -- a recognition added to the deep one of all the place that uses software. "it has tons of the bulletin plate of these PHP installs around," said Johannes Ullrich, main officer of the technology of the center of the storm of the InterNet, that follows threats in line. To use Google to determine vulnerable places is not an exercise academic. The without-end makes that one accurately: A time that Santy infects a Web site, looks Google for other places that function phpBB and also tries then infect those places. Later that fêz examination on of a place, the without-end all suppresses the pages of the HTML, PHP, active pages of the user (ASP), user of Java (JSP), and safe pages of the HTML, and substitutes them with the text, "this place is disfigured! This place is disfigured! Generation of NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm X, "in accordance with Kaspersky. For "X," the without-end it introduces a number that represents as the current example of the program is gone down distant of the original release of the without-end. The MSN searches had found 2âs generations of the without-end. Google did not comment immediately in the without-end, but one spokesman said that the company had seen the information and it had started it to study the edition. The reply, or the lack of this, frustraram some members of the community of antivirus, that it believed that the giant of the search could fàcilmente stop the without-end filtering for is of its search for victims. "we know accurately that he looks for to stop," we said Mikko Hypponen, director of the research of the firm of antivirus F-Seguro. "it would be trivial to stop this thing." The places of the fotorreceptora leather strap that use a vulnerable version of PHP must promote, the place of the project of phpBB recommend.

December 20, 2004

These Bad Non Chaldean Drugs

ATLANTA, Geórgia (CNN) -- the food and the administration of the drug monday emitted an acknowledgment to the users of the pacifying to over-the-counter of after federal investigating pain naproxen found an increased number of attacks and courses of heart between users. The acknowledgment followed the recent studies that bind two drugs of the arthritis of the lapsing to the problems cardiovascular. Naproxen, vendido under the name of Aleve type, was part of a study for the national justinian codes of the health in if naproxen or the Celebrex drug of the arthritis could be used to deal with the illness Alzheimer. The NIH investigators had after stopped the examination having joined the peoples who had made examination naproxen were 50 percent more probable to have heart attacks or courses (full history) the FDA stirred up users to contact its doctors and to prevent them to make examination of the drug for more for much time of 10 days. Helmut Schdefers, one spokesman for Healthcare GAC of Bayer, manufacturers of Aleve, said that the company estêve informed behind night of monday on the tests. The company still did not see the data, said the CNN, but it is investigating the substance. "we are in the agreement with regulators of the FDA that the peoples who make examination of Aleve must consult its doctors and prevent them for more than to make examination of the drug 10 days," it we said. "Aleve is disturbing particularly because it is a drug to over-the-counter," the investigator of the security of the drug of the FDA and whistleblower David said CNN's Graham "American morning," "drugs to over-the-counter are presumptions to be these that are the absolutely safest ones." The NIH study the last week seemed contradict a national study of the institute of cancer that found that the users of Celebrex had more had a raised risk of the attack or the course of heart. The NIH did not find a higher probability of those problems in users of Celebrex. Friday, the FDA warned doctors to consider "the alternative therapy" for the patients who make examination of Celebrex later that the investigators of cancer had found cardiovascular a higher risk of problems between the patients who make examination of the drug. The indication of the FDA said one other painkiller, Bextra, also showed increased risks of events cardiovascular after the surgery of the heart. Findings of the last week the Merck manufacturer of the drug had come two months more than had after remembered a similar drug of the arthritis, Vioxx, after similar results. Merck now faces hundreds of lawsuits and potential of billions of the dollars in the damages. Vioxx, Bextra and Celebrex are of a family of the known drugs as the Cox-2 inhibitors, that had been announced heavily the potential patients. Pfizer pulled ads for Celebrex, but it disputed findings and it kept the drug in the market for now. Graham said that the recent editions that surround medications point to the problems biggest in the FDA, such as a lack of accountability of the agency. The agency remains, said it, in the negation on problems with the way that the drugs are approved. "I think that this makes the question biggest, ' because it has the FDA not made the work that needs to make to protect America of the unsafe drugs ' "he said. Graham said in its 20 years in the FDA, the "security estêve in the back part of the bar-bus, if was in the bar-bus in everything."