Microsoft has acknowledged and fixed a problem that could let attackers crash some Windows 98 or Windows Me computers from afar.
The vulnerability let an attacker crash a computer running Microsoft's WebTV software simply by sending it a certain type of information over the Internet. The problem affected only computers on which the WebTV software had been installed and was running.
The WebTV software, not to be confused with the special-purpose hardware that goes by the same name, lets a person watch television on a computer.
Bug hunter Andrew Griffiths notified Microsoft of the attack in August and publicly announced it in September, but Microsoft refused to acknowledge whether it was in fact a problem until Wednesday. Microsoft now has come around to Griffiths' point of view.
The company says that manufacturing facilities in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, will be inspected by a group "dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide."
The Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 S6500 could make its debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month, according to a leaked promotional image.
The space agency powers down its last System Z machine, years after IBM stopped selling them for the mathematical calculation jobs for which NASA originally bought them.
A group calling itself Evil Shadow Team reportedly hacked into Microsoft's online store in India, stealing usernames and passwords of the site's customers.
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