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SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. has warned that its Internet Explorer software contains six flaws, some of which could give hackers access to - and even potentially change - personal information about computer users. The Redmond company, which called the severity of some of the flaws "critical," advised users of Explorer versions 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 to download a patch for the software from the Microsoft Web site at www.microsoft.com/security. The security bulletin issued late Wednesday marks the fourth time this year that Microsoft has issued a fix for Explorer. >{? Among other things, the flaws could allow hackers to...

<p>The FBI this weekend raided the homes of the two online vandals known as the Deceptive Duo and confiscated their computers, according to a friend of the teens.</p> <p>The Duo -- Robert Lyttle, known online as Pimpshiz, and The-Rev -- defaced numerous government and private industry Web sites over the past few weeks in a spree that they claimed was driven by patriotism.</p>

<p>Internet Explorer users who click their browser's back button open the Windows operating system to a malicious hack attack.</p> <p>When users hit the back button on Explorer's toolbar, the browser's security settings for the "Internet" zone can be bypassed, and the browser will automatically execute malicious code embedded into a site's URL.</p>