Security flaw is discovered in software used in shopping
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Netscape Communications' Internet software has a security flaw that allows a hacker to break the security code in under a minute, using a standard workstation. Ian Goldberg and David Wagner, first year graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley, discovered the problem after studying software developer documents from Netscape. Netscape can fix the flaw within a week and will post the update at http://home.netscape.com. Those who use the software only for nonsensitive data need not worry, but the breach may shake corporate and consumer confidence in conducting business over the World Wide Web. Netscape stock already fell slightly after a small audience heard the news. The out-of-pocket cost to Netscape will not be high because the company distributes most of its software over the Internet for free. Netscape's encryption allows users to easily discover the values used to make the key that decodes an encrypted message.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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The wrath over Microsoft's Word
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Users of Microsoft Corp's Word 6.0 for Macintosh are angry because the new software is slower than the previous version and contains multiple program errors. Users feel that Microsoft is not paying proper attention to the Macintosh market because it represents just $400 million and less than eight percent of its business. Some industry analysts believe the company is losing its ability to compete in a market where technological change is the norm because of the large size of its bureaucracy. Company officials explain that the problems are unique because its programmers used the same programming kernels for the Windows and Macintosh version and the conversion to the Macintosh platform was rough. Microsoft plans to ship a free upgrade to users at the end of Mar 1995.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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A Microsoft bug could make some early birds an hour later
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Microsoft's operating systems have a new bug. Instead of the Year 2000 problem, it seems that the operating systems will have an error in the calculation of daylight savings time on April 1, 2001. All applications run on Windows will show the correct time as one hour earlier that it actually is. The bug will only last one week, until April 8, 2001, and then it will be back on track. The problem doesn't seem too significant, but when you think of applications that are time-specific, you could run into a lot of problems.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1999
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