We have reset all users passwords and closed the security hole that allowed them to enter.
Music streaming site Spotify has rushed to fix a security hole that allowed users free song downloads.
The weak link: County employees had been logging into the network through their home computers, leaving a gaping security hole.
And what did the agency do with its newly purchased security hole?
The new patch fixes both the original security hole named after researcher Juan Carlos Garcia Cuartango and a recently discovered variant of the problem.
Microsoft first patched this security hole on Aug. 10, and issued a security bulletin on Oct. 17 pointing customers to the same software patch.
On Monday, Microsoft said a newly discovered security hole in Internet Explorer 5.0 could allow malicious webmasters to seize control of a computer through the browser's ImportExportFavorites feature.
Zachary Harris, a Florida mathematician, thought he was being subjected to a classic Google employment test when he received an email from a Google recruiter containing a huge security hole.
Earlier on Tuesday, news broke that there was a security hole in Yelp -- one of the test partners in Facebook's "Instant Personalization" program -- that put Facebook user data at risk.
An article written by Kim Zetter on the front page of Wired.com and published last week prompted concern among Google Apps customers that the security hole had also exposed their companies to mischief makers.
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The team patching the security hole in the server is different from the one working on the October intrusion, which was achieved using an attack program hidden in e-mail, said Rick Miller, another Microsoft spokesman.
As Mr. Kidd recalls, Mr. Dorsey, then a student at the University of Missouri-Rolla, hacked into DMS's computers and crafted an email from Mr. Kidd's email account explaining that there was a security hole in the company's website that he could fix.
Unexpected negatives will include the Federal Reserve's continuing to muck up monetary policy, which will lead to higher interest rates, and bipartisan attempts to "solve" Social Security's actuarial black hole by boosting payroll taxes.
More quant easing is likely in the form of bond buybacks and other non-security instruments that blew a big hole in the market in 2008.
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By attacking a loophole in Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program it has rewritten laws of virus prevention and punched a big hole in PC users security systems that others can drive through.
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"The fact that a foreign national was able to re-enter the U.S. with what appeared to be a valid student visa, while Customs and Border Protection officers were unaware that his visa status had become invalid, represents a serious hole in our national security, " McCaul told CNN.
Each new information-sharing program opened up another hole in the corporate information security armor.
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"It's clear they feel that the one ace in the hole that they still hold is national security and fighting terrorism, " VandeHei says.
For various reasons, everyone likes to talk about the "analog hole" problem with DRM protection: pretty much all security falls down in the face of a well positioned camera and mic setup in the back of a movie theater.
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The appearance of the exploit on websites has led security firms to raise the level of alert, with Secunia describing the hole as extremely critical.
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