Jennifer DiSabatino

America Online Inc. today said it patched a buffer overflow vulnerability in its AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) software.

The number of layoffs at dot-com companies continued to taper off in December, ending a grim year for Internet-based companies, which saw a total of 100,925 jobs eliminated, according to outsourcing firm Challenger Gray & Christmas Inc.

The U.S. Department of the Interior is slowly getting back online after a federal judge last week ordered all of the department's computers to be disconnected from the Internet.

Aside from a spike in the number of layoffs among dot-coms after Sept. 11, the haemorrhaging of jobs at Internet companies continues to slow, according to a U.S. analyst firm.

Oracle wants to lure users of Microsoft

Microsoft Corp. now has a patch available for the security hole in Internet Explorer Versions 5.5 and 6 that can expose cookie data to malicious hackers.

Microsoft Corp. now has a patch available for the security hole in Internet Explorer Versions 5.5 and 6 that can expose cookie data to malicious hackers.

A newly reported vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer allows hackers to steal or corrupt cookie information on a user's desktop through a malformed URL at a Web site or in an HTML e-mail.