Word: glitch
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...hackers are exploiting an old vulnerability in the Windows NT operating system. Microsoft developed a downloadable patch for the glitch as early as 1998. But many e-commerce sites have ignored Microsoft's security upgrade bulletins. Even after the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center site published an urgent warning last December, several dozen more cases of attempted Russian mob shakedowns were reported...
...ALWAYS HAVE PARIS On Jan. 31, United Airlines posted on its website a surprisingly reasonable fare for a round-trip flight to Paris: $25. The airline pulled the offer--the result of a programming glitch--after 55 minutes, but not before 143 keen-eyed Web surfers saw fit to take United up on it. After initially refusing to honor the bargain rate, United gave in last week and announced that it would issue the tickets. Bon voyage...
...late December, the Federal Register published the administration's hard-fought and exhaustively researched medical privacy rules, hailed by privacy advocates as the most comprehensive and sweeping protections ever. But thanks to an administrative glitch (chalk it up to end-of-term nerves), the rules were never sent to Congress for a required 60-day review - until February...
Last year's Springfest ran $4,000 over budget and a glitch in planning meant that the inflatable castles and rides did not arrive to the event...
...Harvard has led Yale in the fourth quarter and came out the loser each time. For the past two seasons, Harvard has either been ahead or tied in the fourth quarter in each game that it lost. Even the great Ivy League championship team of 1997 had a similar glitch, opening a 20-0 lead over Bucknell that slowly frittered away...