Brett_Tabke - 11:56 pm on Feb 2, 2006 (gmt 0)

[eweek.com...]

Poor deployment of security patches by administrators and the growing popularity of programs like phpBB are to blame, Netcraft said. On Jan. 30, a bulletin board run by chip maker AMD was compromised by hackers and was used to distribute malicious code. Those who visited the site, forums.amd.com, were prompted to download a file that exploited a recently patched vulnerability in Windows code used to process WMF (Windows Meta File) format image files, according to anti-virus firm F-Secure Inc. in Helsinki.