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Flaw exposes holes in alert system (Associated Press)

ISS has won the attention of the Associated Press in Washington for their handling yesterday of the security vulnerability they publicized in Apache. "A security bug was found in software used by millions of Web sites. Private experts alerted users and the FBI's computer security division. Problem is, they didn't tell the maker of the software. Then they issued the wrong prescription for fixing the flaw."
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