Hotmail Users Need to Update Browser

For many people, the axiom, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, is their modus operandi. With so many other things to worry about, updating a browser that seems to be working fine just isn’t a high priority. However, a recently discovered security bug in Hotmail may serve as a wakeup call to all Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.0 users. BugNet has verified a security vulnerability that would allow a malicious user to usurp control of someone else’s Hotmail account, allowing the hacker to read and to send e-mail from that account. Because this security hole can be thwarted by upgrading IE, we recommend that all Hotmail users verify that they are running the most current version of the Microsoft browser.? Read the rest of this entry »

Pragma Systems Inc., an Internet software products developer for the Windows platform, recently released a patch for their telnet server for Windows NT/2000. The fix eliminates a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that could cause an application crash if one of two different scenarios is met. The bug, originally reported by the Underground Security Systems Research organization (USSRBack), involves a buffer overflow memory problem in the remote execution daemon (rexecd.exe) in the Pragma Telnet Server. By hitting the server with a carefully constructed Internet packet, a malicious user could crash the Pragma telnet server requiring the server administrator to restart the telnet server application, or, in some situations, to reboot the system.? Read the rest of this entry »

Here are some of the more dangerous, comic or widespread bugs affecting PCs right now, selected from among thousands of entries in the BugNet BugMaster Database.

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FrameMaker 6
Point your browser to http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n5809 to find out whether or not your Macintosh computer supports the Energy Saver control panel. If it doesn’t, don’t try running Adobe FrameMaker 6.0, otherwise this message may pop up: “The application ‘FrameMaker 6.0′ could not be opened because ‘PowerMgrLib’ could not be found”. The fact of the matter: FrameMaker 6.0 doesn’t run on any Macintosh that doesn’t support the Energy Saver control panel feature. Read the rest of this entry »

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