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Leap Year Computer Bug On Its Way
News British businesses are being warned their computer systems could become mangled by another date-related computer bug that will be triggered on 29 February. Action 2000, the government body created to increase awareness of the year 2000 bug, is...
[February 22, 2000, 10:27]
'Stages.worm' On The Loose
News The bug, called 'Stages.worm', does not damage computer files but can shut down corporate e-mail servers. While there is some concern that employees arriving on Monday morning may be fooled into opening e-mail that carries the bug, anti-virus...
[June 19, 2000, 14:29]
SirCam Worm Settles In For The Long Haul
News Even as most companies have prevented their networks from spreading the bug, individual computer users continue to send out infected files day after day, with the worm piggybacking on documents ranging from confidential to comical: recipes...
[August 3, 2001, 9:38]
Minor Bug Lingers In Pentium 4
News Because of the bug, consumers may experience slow processing or data corruption if they connect a second monitor or an additional graphics card through one of the PCI expansion slots in a Pentium 4 computer.
[December 27, 2000, 13:41]
Microsoft Discloses Denial Of Service Bugs
News David Litchfield, a security expert with @Stake and an experienced bug finder in Microsoft products, said the flaw is not as significant as one that could allow a hacker to break into a computer network, but still merits an alert.
[March 6, 2001, 14:44]
Man Accused Of Love Bug Hack Goes Free
News Insufficient evidence is blamed Monday for the collapse of the case against a Filipino student accused of authoring the Love Bug. Questions have been raised over whether the Love Bug was an individual or group effort and several other suspects have...
[August 21, 2000, 11:40]
MTX Virus Won't Let You Get Help
News The bug, called MTX, was discovered in August and initially labeled a low risk. The bug has one very sinister feature: once it infects a user, it's programmed to stop the victim from visiting antivirus Web sites and sending "mayday" emails to...
[November 29, 2000, 12:24]
New Security Flaw In Outlook, IE
News The bug, known as a cross-domain scripting flaw, was discovered on 25 June, and information about it has been posted on several security lists since then. Larholm also informed Microsoft of the bug the day it was discovered.
[July 11, 2002, 7:51]
Panorama Puts Teenage Hackers Under The Microscope
News In fact, according to the programme, in the under-privileged suburbs of Manila, the Love Bug author has become something of a celebrity, putting the Philippines on the cyber map and encouraging youngsters to enrol on computer courses.
[July 4, 2000, 11:04]
Exploit Code Out For Windows Flaw
News Two examples of computer code that exploit a flaw in Windows Media Player have become available only days after Microsoft released a patch to fix the bug. Versions of Windows Media Player affected by the bug include 7.1 through 10.
[February 17, 2006, 8:45]
'Love Bug' Comes In 13 Variants
News The 'Love Bug', the most virulent computer virus ever created, penetrated millions of computers last week, including those of the Pentagon, the CIA and the British parliament. Love turned to hate today when workers returned to work to find yet...
[May 8, 2000, 10:19]
Researcher On Both Sides Of HP Bug Battle
News According to court documents unsealed in the past two weeks, former IBM engineer Phillip Adams was paid $27m, or about £17.3m, by Hewlett-Packard to help the computer maker defend lawsuits over the very bug Adams had publicised.
[January 14, 2003, 7:42]
New Outlook Bug Can Sting With Spam
News He said sample code is an essential part of the process when unearthing a computer bug. However, an individual sent details of the bug to a security mailing list this morning. But the company also says the bug will impact few corporate users.
[July 19, 2000, 9:05]
Adobe Acrobat Security Hole Discovered
News Anti-virus vendors recommend that computer users download Adobe's bug fix in order to guarantee that they are not left vulnerable. The security bug means that a specially created Acrobat PDF file could be used to crash Acrobat running on Windows...
[August 8, 2000, 10:40]
Code Red II: A Double Whammy
News The new bug also uses the attacked computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address to look for nearby systems to infect, operating on the theory that if there is one vulnerable computer, there could be others nearby, Maiffret said.
[August 7, 2001, 9:25]
Apple Readies First Jaguar Update
News The Mac OS X 10.2.1 update, which includes bug fixes and enhancements, would come less than a month after Apple launched the desktop and sever versions of Jaguar. Two e-mail bug fixes are addressed: One where e-mail could be permanently lost should...
[September 17, 2002, 8:27]
Experts Warn Of IE Gopher Hole
News But IE still supports the archaic protocol, which can be used to exploit a buffer overflow bug and expose a client computer to a server running malicious code. Other recent Microsoft security problems include a pair of problems affecting how IE...
[June 6, 2002, 7:32]
Hacking Will Cost World $1.6 Trillion This Year
News Incidents such as February's distributed denial of service attacks and May's Love bug worm have increased awareness of the threat of computer crime and misuse. It is estimated that the Love bug, considered to be the most destructive worm ever...
[July 11, 2000, 9:01]
A Year Ago: Hacking Will Cost World $1.6 Trillion This Year
News Incidents such as February's distributed denial of service attacks and May's Love bug worm have increased awareness of the threat of computer crime and misuse. It is estimated that the Love bug, considered to be the most destructive worm ever...
[July 11, 2001, 6:28]
Government Warned Of Hacking Danger
News It is reported that the Head of the House of Commons believes the map showing the nations computer infrastructure, developed to guard against the millennium bug could be used to fend off hackers. Beckett, who was responsible for the governments...
[April 7, 2000, 16:31]
