Two new security bugs, one affecting Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer software and the other Network Associates Inc.'s Pretty Good Privacy, a message encryption program, were discovered by researchers, the Wall Street Journal said. Bruce Schneier of Counterpane Internet Security Inc. and Jonathan Katz of the University of Maryland, said they'd found a way of modifying a PGP message without unscrambling it, meaning a hacker could pass the message on to the intended recipient without them knowing it had been doctored, the Journal said.
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