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Analysts say investors likely are unfazed by the outage thanks to the company's quick recovery, but Yahoo inadvertently introduces a bug into its Web-based email system amid the rush. "Wall Street is more accepting of attacks than site failures." - James Preissler, PaineWebber analyst

Yahoo introduces email bug after attack In its haste to recover from yesterday's "denial of service" attack, Yahoo inadvertently introduces a bug into its Web-based email system. New assault weapons pose threat to Web A combination of new technologies and the rising stakes of online business may help explain this week's rash of outages at some of the Web's largest companies. Investors, analysts still bullish on Yahoo update Despite an apparent hacker attack that crippled Yahoo's site for several hours, investors are forgiving. How a basic attack crippled Yahoo The assault highlights a simple technique that can cripple a large, relatively well-prepared Internet company. Outage a deliberate attack, Yahoo says update A three-hour outage on Yahoo is the result of a malicious attack intentionally aimed at disabling the service, according to company executives.