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28th April 2001 Archive

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  • iPlanet Server hole affects online banking

    Get the bleedin' patch now

    A serious buffer overflow vulnerability in iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition discovered by researchers from @Stake enables an attacker to intercept parts of another user's session by retrieving data from memory allocation pools. Such data could include session identifiers, cookies, form submissions, login names and …

    Security 28 Apr 2001, 08:32

  • Gates back on top of the world

    Sunday Times mi$calculation

    Last week, the Sunday Times Rich List claimed that Wal-Mart Chairman Robson Walton had surpassed Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as the most obscenely wealthy person in the known universe, but appears to have neglected to carry a two or somehow misplaced a decimal point in its calculations. Indeed, the Times overestimated Walton' …

    Business 28 Apr 2001, 09:11

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