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Major Netscape Bug [CNN]
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> From Correspondent Steve Young
> June 12, 1997: 6:58 p.m. ET
>
> Netscape unveils Netcaster - April 15, 1997
>
> Princeton team finds third Netscape bug - May 20, 1996
>
> Netscape NEW YORK (CNNfn) - A serious new flaw that affects all
> versions of Netscape Communications Corp.'s popular Navigator Internet
> browser software -- including the final test version of its
> Communicator Suite released Wednesday -- has been uncovered by a
> Danish software firm, CNNfn has learned.
>
> The bug was reported by Cabocomm, a software company located about 100
> miles west of Copenhagen, Denmark. The bug makes it possible for
> Web-site operators to read anything stored on the hard drive of a PC
> logged on to the Web site.