Security Expert Warns of Media Players

[ronjor]

{QUOTE-> David Thiel, senior security consultant with San Francisco-based iSEC Partners, said at the Black Hat hacker conference that he has found several flaws in popular commercial media players, but he declined to provide their brand names because, he says, he is still disclosing the exploits to the companies so they can issue fixes. <-QUOTE}Article (http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=54359)

[Escalader]

Hi Ron:

Yes, MS Media Player 11 does very active "phone" homes, no idea what it was sending so I blocked it and finally removed the product.

Or user could set application to "ask" for access out...