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Hackers aren't just picking on Microsoft: study   
Monday, May 02 2005 @ 03:24 PM EDT
Contributed by: glosser

This study finds that people tend to pick the easiest targets, instead of the most numerous. Unfortunately, Microsoft products tend to be both.

WASHINGTON - Online criminals turned their attention to antivirus software and media players like Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes in the first three months of 2005 as they sought new ways to take control of users' computers, according to a survey released on Monday.

While hackers continued to poke new holes in Microsoft Corp.'s popular Windows operating system, they increasingly exploited flaws in software made by other companies as well, the nonprofit SANS Institute found.

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