Wikipedia used to spread malicious code

Tom Espiner from ZDNet UK posted an item yesterday that blew me away.  He indicated that Wikipedia had a page attacked by hackers that attempted to spread malicious code. Whew ... I'm glad the folks at Wikipedia were fast to to fix this problem.

In part, Tom said:

The entry for the MSBlast worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopedia was altered to include false information about a new version of the Lovesan/MSBlast worm, with links to a supposed fix, according to Sophos. The fix was actually a piece of malicious code, the antivirus vendor said in a notice published Friday.

Check out the full text of Tom's post here