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CarolinaFaithful
Posted 8/16/2008 7:36 AM


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By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
Published Friday 15th August 2008 18:02 GMT

A new web-based attack is making the rounds that tries to spread poisonous links by hijacking end users' clipboards.


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/15/webbased_clipboard_hijacking/
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Posted 8/19/2008 2:35 PM


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