Millions at risk from chat flaws
Source: ZDNet
An Irish security consultant published details this weekend of two software bugs in a popular chat program--bugs that could be used to install malicious programs on a victim's computer.
The flaws make users of mIRC--a common Windows program that lets people chat in real time over a network of "Internet relay chat" servers--susceptible to attack if they connect to a compromised server, said James Martin, the independent security consultant who found one of the flaws.
"At the moment, (exploiting the flaw) is not that easy," Martin said, "but the code is in the hands of a lot of people."
