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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Subject: FY Ammo: Study about Security Bugs
Date: 1999/11/25
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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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