Microsoft has confirmed a security risk on Web Servers running Frontpage 98 extensions. Somebody will lose their job over this one, but it's pretty funny.

Microsoft secret password could allow access to Web sites
By Joe Wilcox
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
April 14, 2000, 11:05 a.m. PT

update Microsoft said its engineers included a secret password using the phrase "Netscape engineers are weenies!" in Web site authoring software that could allow hackers to gain unauthorized access to potentially thousands of Web sites.

The password back door was included in software by one or more Microsoft engineers, the company confirmed. Hackers knowing how to exploit the vulnerability could access any site using FrontPage 98 extensions, Microsoft said.

... The Microsoft spokeswoman made it clear the engineers' action is a firing offense.

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http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1696137.html?tag=st.cn.1.lthdne