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7/29/98 - Back Orifice a Pain in the ...?
A quasi-underground computer security organization is preparing to release a program that will potentially grant a malicious cracker the ability to remotely control and monitor any computer running the Windows 95 or 98 operating system over a network. But Microsoft said the program was not a threat.
The group, Cult of the Dead Cow, said in a statement that it will release Back Orifice on 1 August at the Def Con hacker convention in Las Vegas.
7/31/98 - Panda Antivirus for Outlook was the top remedy for the ‘security hole’
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8/3/98 - Back Orifice wows crowd at DEF CON
8/6/98 - Internet Security Systems (ISS) Security Alert Advisory
A hacker group known as the Cult of the Dead Cow has released a Windows 95/98 backdoor named 'Back Orifice' (BO). Once installed this backdoor allows unauthorized users to execute privileged operations on the affected machine.
8/6/98 - Microsoft Discounts Threat
8/7/98 - Back Orifice Goes Forth
8/7/98 - Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS98-010)
On July 21, a self-described hacker group known as the Cult of the Dead Cow released a program called "Back Orifice," and suggested that users of Microsoft® Windows® were somehow at risk from unauthorized attacks. Microsoft takes security seriously, and has issued this bulletin to advise customers that users of Windows 95 and Windows 98 following safe computing practices (including not installing software from unknown and untrusted sources) are not at risk. Additionally, users of Microsoft Windows NT® and the Microsoft BackOffice® suite of products are not threatened in any way by this tool, since it does not even run on Windows NT.
8/7/98 - Email Links Mask Threat
The flaw in Eudora 4.0 and 4.01 for Windows could enable attackers to use links included in email messages to find and launch potentially destructive software applications. On Friday, Qualcomm, makers of Eudora products, acknowledged the problem in its product.
8/10/98 - Tales from the Dead Cow reveal dastardly danger
8/11/98 - Panda Software Offering Remedy For Back Orifice Threat
8/12/98 - Panda Software neutralizes the Back Orifice threat
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7/28/98 - Email security flaw discovered
The security glitch affects the way email clients handle file attachments with extremely long file names. Since it was discovered last month by a team of researchers at a Finnish university, tests have shown the security bug's presence in three of the most popular email programs, Microsoft Outlook Express and Outlook 98 and Netscape Communicator Web software package.
7/29/98 - Microsoft Email patch flawed
The patch is for the security bug as it affects Outlook Express, the free email client for Internet Explorer, not Outlook 98, the latest messaging client for Microsoft Office. Meng said a new patch will be posted by the end of the week.
8/11/98 - Updated Information and Patch Now Available for E-mail Security Issue
If you use either Microsoft Outlook 98 or Outlook Express 4.x, Microsoft recommends that you download and apply the appropriate updated security patch.
