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However, Google says it has already issued a patch to protect Android users from attacks exploiting the flaw.

In Canada, a computer-science student was nabbed trying to pilfer social-security numbers by exploiting the flaw in a government website.

Cyber analysts said last night that authorities must act immediately to close the loophole, pointing out that within hours of it being discovered, hackers had started exploiting the flaw, posting videos of their exploits online.

The discovery was made by a group of researchers at Cardiff University, who found that anyone exploiting the flaw was guaranteed to be able to break into any account within nine attempts.

Thousands of Twitter accounts have posted messages exploiting the flaw.

But by exploiting the flaw, the malware could then escalate its privileges.

Automatic updating, if done right, can help eliminate the threat of known security vulnerabilities before attackers start exploiting the flaws.

The student's virus, actually a group of small programs, entered systems by exploiting the flaws, said Clifford Stoll, a computer security expert at Harvard University.

But increasingly the businesses are being outbid by countries with the goal of exploiting the flaws in pursuit of the kind of success, albeit temporary, that the United States and Israel achieved three summers ago when they attacked Iran's nuclear enrichment program with a computer worm that became known as "Stuxnet".

As hackers are already exploiting the flaws, and surveillance companies are selling $20 millionSS77 snooping services to nation state spies, network operators are trying to roll out protections for customers.

Seggelmann told the Herald that intelligence agencies could have exploited the flaw to spy on people.