FYI…

- http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3642011
November 3, 2006
"If Web 2.0 is built on trust, that may also be its downfall. Hackers entered a Web page into the German edition of Wikipedia that claimed there was a new variant of the Blaster virus floating around and provided a link to a download to remove the virus. The problem was, the supposed virus remover was the virus. The hackers then spammed German computer users, pretending to be from Wikipedia, and directed them to the bogus page about "new worm." Fortunately, antivirus vendor Sophos* caught the email, and it alerted Wikipedia about the bogus page. The page was quickly taken down. Because of the inherent nature of Wikipedia – an online encyclopedia that anyone can add to or edit – it makes this kind of opportunistic criminal easy. "This was another strong social engineering opportunity," Gregg Mastoras, vice president of marketing at Sophos, told internetnews.com…"
* http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/art…ia-malware.html
3 November 2006
"…Wikipedia has now confirmed that it has permanently erased the archived version of the page…"

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