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Properly displaying the information has presented somewhat of a problem as well. Most Web browsers are preconfigured to open the appropriate application according to the data it is being sent. For example, if you click on a file containing animation, the Web browser will download the file and then attempt to run the animation using a program on your computer...
...animations sent to visitors' computers as little applications, or "applets." Java is supposed to screen these applets to make sure they can't do any damage to the computer that receives them. But to Sun's--and Netscape's--acute embarrassment, the version that appeared in Netscape's latest browser had a loophole big enough to let through all manner of software viruses. Netscape's programmers caught the bug last week before it could do any harm--and before they had to hand out any prizes...
...safe for business--including home banking and online creditcard shopping--Netscape has become a fat target for anybody with the time or skill to prove that it hasn't achieved that goal. Just last month the company had to rush out a new version of the Netscape browser after two groups of hackers cracked its security code...
Hoping to harness some of that codebreaking talent, Netscape last week began offering cash awards to anybody who can find a security hole in the beta, or test, version of its latest browser software. Under the so-called Bugs Bounty program, the first person to identify a "significant" security flaw wins $1,000. Lesser bugs earn smaller prizes ranging from $40 sweatshirts to $12 coffee mugs. The idea, explains a company spokesperson, is to get hackers to hack when it will do the Netscape some good--before the product is officially released...
Netscape Communications Corporation, known for its popular World Wide Web browser, went public in August; shares started trading on the secondary market at a 300 percent premium. The company later suffered the public humiliation of having its transaction security protocol cracked twice--first by a French hacker who cracked the international version, then by a pair of computer science students at the University of California at Berkeley who cracked the (supposedly more secure) domestic version...