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Yahoo fixes email security hole

Dec 10, 2003 1:32AM PST
Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday said it had fixed a security hole in its popular free Web-based e-mail service.

The hole could have allowed an attacker to launch a computer worm or run malicious code on a victim's computer when an e-mail containing the code was opened, according to Finjan Software of San Jose, California, which discovered the problem.


http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3969081

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