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  • Lovesick hacker hits Microsoft

    Earning a footnote in the annals of computer vandalism, a lovesick hacker known as "flipz" on Tuesday became the first person known to have defaced one of Microsoft Corp.'s Web sites. The hacker, who also altered a handful of government Web sites in recent days, says he expects to be arrested soon. "Its (sic) all about fun till the feds bust down the door," said a message left on one of the defaced Web sites.

  • Software tweak may make operating systems safer

    The OpenBSD project is making changes in its latest operating system release that it believes could eliminate a class of security bugs that has plagued computers for decades.

  • Open-source team fights buffer overflows

    The OpenBSD project hopes new changes to its latest release will eliminate a software issue that has been plaguing security experts for more than three decades.

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