The provider has sold to subscribers the vulnerable program

The French Internet provider Orange has offered the users the program locking illegal filesharing, however vulnerability in this system has opened computers of all subscribers for malefactors.

Past week provider Orange has offered the subscribers for 2 euros per month to install on the computer the program which will inspect illegal filesharing. The innovation is intended for those users who are afraid that their children can by nonsense take advantage torrents and thus substitute the parents. We will remind that France – one of few European Union countries where system “three blows”, providing tracing and disconnecting file exchangers from the Network is legislatively confirmed.

The Windows application works in a background, receiving from a server of the provider special “black lists” which contents remain secret. With these lists the program compares that distributes and the user downloads.

Vulnerability in this system have detected almost at once. Having clarified ip-address to which the program accesses, experts have detected that to the given address there is a public server where works java-servlet and where all ip-addresses of users “are lighted”.

It was besides clarified that the management interface of system is accessible on a login “admin” with the similar password. According to some information, at desire the malefactor can update servlet and infect computers of users harmful ON.

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