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Story: Hackers attacked parliament using WMF exploit

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Posted by: Anonymous Coward (Monday 23 January 2006, 3:59 PM)

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One minor problem with this article, that is exactly the same text as was quoted in various virus warnings regarding viruses being sent to the general public. A japanese site identified below lists it as being from f-secure and they posted this back on 3rd Jan.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20060103/226844/&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Delete%2Bthe%2Bmap%2Bthereafter.%2BGood%2Bluck.%2BTommy%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

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