Bofra exploit hits The Register ad serving supplier

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: November 23, 2004 9:20:27 AM EST
To: undisclosed-recipient:;
Subject: Bofra exploit hits The Register ad serving supplier

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/21/register_adserver_attack/


Bofra exploit hits our ad serving supplier
By Team Register
Published Sunday 21st November 2004 16:18 GMT

Important notice

Early on Saturday morning some banner advertising served for The
Register by third party ad serving company Falk AG became infected
with the Bofra/IFrame exploit. The Register suspended ad serving by
this company on discovery of the problem.

Bofra/IFrame is a currently unpatched exploit which affects Internet
Explorer 6.0 on all Windows platforms bar Windows XP SP2. If you may
have visited The Register between 6am and 12.30pm GMT on Saturday,
Nov 20 using any Windows platform bar XP SP2 we strongly advise you
to check your machine with up to date anti-virus software, to install
SP2 if you are running Windows XP, and to strongly consider running
an alternative browser, at least until Microsoft deals with the issue.

We have asked Falk for an explanation and for further details of the
incident, and pending this we do not intend to restart ad-serving via
the company. Falk will, we understand, be making a statement
regarding the matter on Monday.

Although the matter was beyond our direct control, we do not regard
it as acceptable for any Register reader to be exposed in this way,
and wish to apologise sincerely to anyone who was. Further
information about this particular exploit is available here or here.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/04/ie_iframe_vuln/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/10/bofra_worm/

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