The bug may have been brief, but it has highlighted just how many important websites use Facebook Connect for user authentication.
Many patients now worry, with reason, that if they end up in hospital they may get a nasty bug.
There is a small risk that people may contract a stomach bug if they come into contact with contaminated water, especially where there has been mixing with sewage.
However, the DoJ, whose lack of a sense of humour is generally comsidered a feature rather than a bug, may prove a tougher foe than 15 million Xbox antagonists.
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In fact, cross-site scripting may be the most common unpatched bug in the world.
Nonetheless, he says that other researchers have independently engineered the DNS vulnerability, and he admits that the bug's public announcement may have attracted more attention--not all from innocent sources.
Companies may be confident that their own systems are bug-free, but they are less sure of those of others.
Wards were also closed in February, May and November because of an outbreak of the sickness bug.
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That is probably a reference to fears of a liquidity crunch at the end of the year as financial institutions hold back to avoid millennium-bug accidents indeed, such fears may make the Fed delay raising rates until next year.
When it was tested in May, however, Remote Agent proved to contain an unexpected timing bug.
All babies born in Scotland from May are to be offered a vaccination to protect them from a bug which causes severe diarrhoea and vomiting.
In the experiment published in Nature in May, scientists combined H5N1 and swine flu and came up with a hybrid bug that could leap from mammal to mammal.
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Gates may have realized his best defense lies in a strategy alien to Microsoft's bug-ridden history: offering products we can trust.
The scientists found many sections of the bug's DNA seemed to have been acquired from other organisms - some may even have come from humans.
Now, with the latest critical bug appearing even before that last mess has even been cleaned up, it may be time to ditch Java for good.
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