From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Subject: FY Ammo: Study about Security Bugs
Date: 1999/11/25
Date: 1999-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn83qb10.kn.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de> (raw)
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1462855.html?tag=st.ne.1002.bgif.1003-200-1
Quick: What's the computer vulnerability of the decade?
It's not the Y2K bug, according to computer science and security analysts,
but a security weakness known as the buffer overflow. Unlike the Y2K bug,
which threatens to cripple computers unable to distinguish years written in
two-digit shorthand, this vulnerability opens computers to attacks by
malicious hackers, who can use the bug to commandeer the targeted computer.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-25 0:00 Lutz Donnerhacke [this message]
1999-11-25 0:00 ` FY Ammo: Study about Security Bugs Preben Randhol
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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