"The fast growing popularity of RSS (really simple syndication) means
that the technology will pose increasingly significant problems for IT
security professionals this year, new research has warned.
ScanSafe's latest web security report notes an explosive
growth in the use of RSS feeds to pull updated content via HTTP and XML
rather than having it being pushed to them by SMTP.
"With this trend expected to increase in 2006, malicious code
writers are expected to take advantage by hijacking existing feed
clients, causing automatic downloads of new worms and other web
threats," the report warned." – SC Magazine
I for one agree with this. In particular I see a bigger potential for
rss feed duplication (copying an existing feed) and inserting ads
in order to generate income.
Story Link: http://www.scmagazine.com/us/news/article/535387/rss-malware-plague-predicted-2006/
