By Felicity Ussher, 31 May 2000 14:47
NEWS Network Associates (NAI) has admitted that its Gauntlet firewall - which it markets as "the world's safest firewall" - has holes in it. The coding error, which NAI is calling a "cyberdaemon", is in the filtering component of the firewall, normally used to protect children from inappropriate Web sites. When used with Mattel CyberPatrol, it creates a hole which hackers can exploit to crash the DOS operating system, and install executable commands. NAI has published a security patch for the problem, which the company claims is common in the software industry.
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