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A Year Ago: Netscape Plans New Bug Fix
News Netscape plans to post a fix to a bug plaguing two versions of its Navigator browser by the end of next week. The bug, which affects Navigator versions 4.01 and 4.02, allows a malicious hacker to track an Internet surfer's activities through a flaw...
[September 2, 1998, 7:01]
Researchers Discover, Help Fix Bug In Java
News JavaSoft has issued a patch to its licensees and will include the fix in the next release of the Java Development Kit, Version 1.1.2 due next week. Microsoft Corp.also has issued its own fix for the security hole.
[May 20, 1997, 18:10]
News Burst: It's Not A Bug Fix - Microsoft
News The company continues to deny the multimedia update' - as it will be named - is really a bug fix, claiming it has many multimedia enhancements. It's official, the much maligned Windows 98 operating system will get its first service pack on 18...
[August 10, 1998, 11:40]
Five Years Ago: Researchers Discover, Help Fix Bug In Java
News JavaSoft has issued a patch to its licensees and will include the fix in the next release of the Java Development Kit, Version 1.1.2 due next week. Microsoft Corp.also has issued its own fix for the security hole.
[May 20, 2002, 7:01]
US Report: Microsoft Offers Fix To RealNetworks' 'bug'
News This weekend, Microsoft posted its analysis of the problem, which included a fix for RealPlayer's code. It is unusual for one software maker to go so far as to offer a work-around for an alleged bug in a rival's product.
[July 28, 1998, 10:17]
No Fix For Mac Office Bug
News Microsoft says the bug first appeared in Office 95 with a fix made available in March. We posted the Office '95 fix in March in Service Pack 1, but no, I cannot give a date when this will be resolved for the Mac version.
[July 1, 1998, 11:04]
NA Confirms PGP Bug And Promises A Fix Friday
News Security firm Network Associates (NAI) has promised a fix for versions 5.5.x to 6.5.3 of its PGP (Pretty Good Protection) encryption software. The email systems contain a serious security bug discovered by Ralf Senderek, a German researcher.
[August 25, 2000, 17:00]
News Burst: Linux Bug-fix Out Already
News The speed with which Red Hat has produced the fix contradicts frequent accusations that it takes far longer to develop open source applications than conventional software. Follow-on story Take me to the Linux Lounge .
[October 20, 1999, 14:25]
Intuit QuickTax Bug Fix Almost There
News Tony Macklin, Intuit UK product manager, said that users would receive a fix very shortly and "well before" the January 31, 1998 tax deadline. In August, the financial software firm sent out letters to 50,000 potential users who could have been...
[September 11, 1997, 11:16]
Netscape Plans New Bug Fix
News The bug, which affects Navigator versions 4.01 and 4.02, allows a malicious hacker to track an Internet surfer's activities through a flaw in the JavaScript code, Netscape's programming language for developing Web pages.
[September 1, 1997, 9:51]
US News: Intel Delay Xeon To Fix Bug
News Intel began notifying OEMs of the errata, or bug, late last week, sources said. As a result of the bug, however, server makers and users will be limited to dual-processor Pentium II servers for a while longer.
[June 23, 1998, 15:13]
News Burst: Novell Bug Fix Destroys File Systems
News NetWare Support Pack 3 -- released late August -- was meant to help network administrators enhance the performance of their network, but had the unfortunate habit of destroying the whole of the NSS high-performance file system.
[September 23, 1999, 10:49]
Microsoft Bug Fix To Improve Security
News Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on the third collection of Windows 2000 bug fixes, which is nearly ready for release after a protracted period of testing, sources said. As the release of Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 approaches, Microsoft...
[July 17, 2002, 8:24]
A Year Ago: Intel Delay Xeon To Fix Bug
News Intel began notifying OEMs of the errata, or bug, late last week, sources said. As a result of the bug, however, server makers and users will be limited to dual-processor Pentium II servers for a while longer.
[June 23, 1999, 6:42]
Flaw Found In Apple Bug-fix Tool
News A vulnerability has been found in a tool being used to apply fixes to software flaws affecting Apple. Vulnerability researchers behind the "Month of Apple Bugs" project (MOAB), which aims to publish one flaw per day throughout January in software...
[January 9, 2007, 16:12]
Millennium Bug Expert Lashes 'fix' Reports
News "The immediate threat from the Millennium Bomb is bigger than BSE, global warming and AIDS combined. Irresponsible reporting is very unhelpful,'' said Robin Guenier, executive director of Taskforce 2000.
[September 19, 1997, 14:35]
Distributors Stamp On Linux Bugs
News Popular Linux distributor Red Hat issued a bug fix Wednesday that will stop users from printing pages they have no access to. The speed with which Red Hat has produced the fix contradicts frequent accusations that it takes far longer to develop...
[October 20, 1999, 15:58]
Skype Update Hangs Up On Hackers
News Skype has updated its popular Internet telephony software to fix a security bug that could expose sensitive data. The latest update of Skype, release 2.5.0.82, includes a fix for the flaw. The bug could be exploited by attackers "to bypass certain...
[May 22, 2006, 10:10]
Locating Matching Method Calls By Mining Revision History Data
White Papers Developing an appropriate fix for a software bug often requires a detailed examination of the code as well as generation of appropriate test cases. However, certain categories of bugs are usually easy to fix.
[May 25, 2007, 1:00]
Linux Kernel Gets Quick Fix
News Version 2.4.11, released on Tuesday, included a bug fix to protect against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, but this bug-fix itself caused problems with SuSE's version of the operating system. Linus Torvalds has released a new kernel, or core, for...
[October 11, 2001, 16:27]
