The New York Times, September 26, 1995, p. D19. Hackers Alert Netscape to Another Flaw By Bloomberg Business News Mountain View, Calif., Sept. 25 -- The Netscape Communications Corporation said today that a third flaw had been discovered in its Internet access software by a group of computer hackers who call themselves the Cypherpunks. The hackers -- computer users and mathematicians who try to discover weaknesses in computer software and networks -- found a design flaw that can shut down Netscape's Navigator browser software, which helps people travel on the Internet. Two American college students last week broke Netscape's software security code, a design flaw that could jeopardize financial transactions done using Navigator. A month earlier, a French hacker broke a different Netscape security code. "We are learning a lot from these problems," said Michael J. Homer, vice president of marketing at Netscape. Shares of the company, which sold its first stock to the public last month, rose $4.25 today to close at $67 in Nasdaq trading. The latest flaw found by the hacker group is a programming error in Netscape software used to navigate the World Wide Web, a part of the Internet made up of photos, sounds and drawings. End]