Skype flaw turns videos into weapons

January 19th, 2008 by Marius Visan (1) Internet

A programming error in eBay’s Skype communications software could give cyber-criminals a new way to sneak their malicious software onto a victim’s PC.
The flaw, which was reported Thursday by security researcher Aviv Raff, has to do with the way that Skype makes use of a Windows [...]