12-03-2005, 12:46 PM
Quote:Once a hijacker has diverted the target podcaster's RSS feed, he or she can wait until a convenient moment when the victim's audience has grown sufficiently and then demand payment. The podcaster is vulnerable because the hijacker can divert the URL pointer to any other podcast and the podcaster's audience will disappear
Extortionists now have a new type of victim to pick on: podcasters. U.S. podcaster Eric Marcus has fallen prey to a hijacker who has diverted his really simple syndication (RSS) feed and is allegedly demanding money to release it. Marcus, who runs the Vegan.com site...
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