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Date: 1998-09-30
Netscape: Bad News mal zwei-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- updating 98.9.11/2 Netscape: Bad News mal zwei Fast zehn Prozent Marktanteile im ersten Halbjahr 98 an Microsoft verloren & dann sind da noch diese 30 Zeilen Java aufgetaucht. Sobald der Communicator entweder via WWW oder auch Mail (attachment) damit in Kontakt gerät, verrät er alle Geheimnisse des Cache. Wie oft wann welche Websites abgerufen wurden, Online/Registrierungen & c - eben alles, was man zum Erstellen von Bewegungs- und Interessensprofilen im Netze brauchen kann. -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- Although still the market leader, Netscape lost nine points of market share in the U.S. browser market in the first half of 1998. Microsoft's branded product gained just under five points of market share in the same period. ... Joan-Carol Brigham, a research manager in IDC's Internet and eCommerce Strategies research program: "It appears that Microsofts current battle with the U.S. government and Netscape's software giveaway have had little effect in keeping Netscapes market share from eroding." full text http://www.idg.net/ -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- JOHN MARKOFF September 28, 1998 A potentially serious security flaw has been discovered in the programming language used in the Navigator and Communicator software of the Netscape Communications Corp., with the defect possibly allowing an outsider to read information on a personal computer user's hard disk. ... He was able to take advantage of the vulnerability by writing a 30-line piece of Javascript code that is able to capture and copy information automatically from the so-called cache, or temporary storage area, on a PC's hard disk. The captured information can reveal which Web sites a computer user has recently visited. The captured information could also include data that a computer user might have created when communicating with a Web site -- including personal data typed in when registering at a site or conducting a retail transaction. Credit card information, however, would not be revealed, because it is protected by separate security software. ... Although there is no evidence that the security flaw has actually been exploited by someone with harmful intent, the gravity of the threat was noted by other computer security specialists. They noted that a user's vulnerability extends beyond visiting a hostile Web site that might exploit the flaw. The flaw could also be exploited through e-mail received using Netscape's software, they said, by sending an intended victim an e-mail message that would secretly force the user to run an illicit Javascript program. ... "This is pretty scary," said Richard M. Smith, president of Phar Lap Software Inc., a software development company in Cambridge, Mass. "In some sense the cache on your computer tells a lot about your life." Full text http://www.nytimes.com http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+iib-site+54+ 0+wAAA+privacy -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- q/depesche is powered by http://www.netsphere.at handicrafters of fine mailing-lists and more -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 1998-09-30 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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