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Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads?
Mar 26 2008 02:36PM
hibbard wapa gov
There are a ton of security problems in Bittorrent.
1) As you mentioned embedded malware, trojans and other nasties in the files that people are downloading.
2) Bittorrent clients have had some security flaws exposed in them recently. Utorrent recently had a flaw that allowed an attacker to ex...
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1) As you mentioned embedded malware, trojans and other nasties in the files that people are downloading.
2) Bittorrent clients have had some security flaws exposed in them recently. Utorrent recently had a flaw that allowed an attacker to ex...
[ more ]