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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Burglars modified code of SquirrelMail


Unknown criminals accomplished the unsanctioned modification of the code of the client of the electronic mail SquirrelMail.
SquirrelMail is the sufficiently functional packet of Web- mail, written on PHP. in SquirrelMail it is realized the support of protocols IMAP and SMTP, are accessible additional modules for the conducting ravine- it is file, the filtration of spam, coding of correspondence, etc. the open packet SquirrelMail is extended on the conditions of license GNU GPL and is accessible in more than 40 languages.
As it communicates on the site of project, unknown criminals, using, supposedly, one of the administrators' stock-taking records, they penetrated in SquirrelMail and introduced changes in the code of the application of versions 1.4.11 and 1.4.12. Through the modified version of SquirrelMail, theoretically they can obtain the unsanctioned access to the remote computer and perform on it arbitrary operations.
To the users, that work with application SquirrelMail 1.4.11 or 1.4.12, are imperatively recommended to update from the site of project the renovated version of the client of electronic mail with index 1.4.13, especially this concerns those, who loaded SquirrelMail after 8 December of the present year.

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