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July 30, 2012 01:48 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/F8nSTv3JkwI/ubisofts-drm-leaves-your-com.html
Ubisoft's DRM leaves your computer wide open to browser-based system hijacking
Yesterday, noted security researcher (and Google employee) Tavis Ormandy published his discovery that Ubisoft's UPlay DRM installs a browser plugin that leaves your computer terribly vulnerable to drive-by attacks over the Internet. The plugin is meant to allow Ubisoft to start games on your computer over the Internet, but it lacks an effective authentication mechanism. [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/F8nSTv3JkwI/ubisofts-drm-leaves-your-com.html
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