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Big guys like IBM, Oracle, SAP and Sun Microsystems spent the tech downturn upgrading their computer systems to work together and handle these chores, partly as a way to make money in the slump.

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Kaminsky's bug, meanwhile, sent tech companies such as Cisco, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems scrambling to release fixes and Internet service providers racing to implement them.

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On July 8, tech heavyweights including Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems teamed up to fix a fundamental flaw in the Internet, one that could allow any Web user to be invisibly redirected to fraudulent sites designed to steal banking passwords or install malicious software on users' PCs.

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