[pchelpers] News:Hacker triggers scare

5:00AM Tuesday November 27, 2007

A lone New Zealand hacker has triggered a security scare that had
Microsoft software engineers in the United States working through their
Thanksgiving holiday weekend to fix a design flaw in Windows software. 

Beau Butler - who describes himself as an "ethical hacker" - revealed at
the NZ computer security conference Kiwicon this month that the flaw was
exposing millions of computers to hijacking by criminals. 

Mr Butler said that while testing the flaw, he found more than 160,000
computers in NZ were vulnerable.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=55&objectid=10478564&ref=rss
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