Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 18:19:41 +0200
From: Patrick Oonk <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]Subject: New Eudora bug ?http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/08/biztech/articles/07email-code.html
SAN FRANCISCO -- Just days after a serious security flaw was revealed in two
popular electronic mail programs, an equally troubling vulnerability has been
discovered in Eudora, the most widely used of all e-mail software.
The Eudora flaw makes it possible for a malicious computer user with little or
no programming expertise to booby-trap an e-mail message by inserting a
seemingly harmless link to an Internet location that in fact executes
malignant code. This could permit an attacker to destroy or steal data or to
otherwise tamper with a personal computer.
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