How to plug Web holes?(Brief Article)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: February 12, 2001| Author: Perry, Joellen | Copyright information

Anthony Osborne crashes computers for a living. And business is good. In December, along with fellow research engineer and software sleuth John McDonald, Osborne discovered three holes in a widely used Web infrastructure program. Criminal hackers taking advantage of the flaws could effectively "turn off parts of the Internet," says research manager Jim Magdych, Osborne and McDonald's boss at PGP Security's Covert Labs.

Web detectives face a dilemma: To publicize their fi...

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