Internet Explorer Security Flaw
by Taylor Flatt on December 20th, 2008 at 9:11 pm EDT - 392 views
Recently, Microsoft has released statements proclaiming a flawed Internet Explorer. Furthermore, they have urged their Internet Explorer users to move to other browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc) to avoid possible hacking. The backdoor into IE is not only present but is being exploited, ”This one was being exploited. Especially once Microsoft announced this vulnerability the bad guys just zeroed in on it” says David Greenberg, a security engineer at IUPUI’s computer lab.
The one thing that is really scary about this backdoor is not the fact that you can be hacked, but that you can be hacked without downloading a thing. The hacker just dives into your computer and steals sensitive information like cc info and personal emails. Many people may not even realize this is even happening until it is too late and they have been infected.
Update: Just a little bit ago, Microsoft has finished their updates. You should be getting your update via Automatic Updates but if you have disabled them then you can download the patch via Microsoft.com.
Category: Security
There are 4 comments so far
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willhite - posted on December 20th, 2008 at 10:47 PM MST - Link
Such a shame, IE7 was doing good for itself too. I wonder if Microsoft gets the masses patched soon enough before some important stuff is being stolen.
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Taylor Flatt - posted on December 20th, 2008 at 10:58 PM MST - Link
Well actually, this flaw was apparently being experienced across all IE browsers.
Also, just a couple hours ago Microsoft released a patch for it.
But once they had released an official comment on the situation there was a massive tidal wave of attacks that had hit people and Microsoft was moving against time to solve the issue which it has recently done. In the next couple days we will see if it was enough and soon enough.
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Bradley Wint - posted on December 20th, 2008 at 11:56 PM MST - LinkLol, MS fails again. Sucks to be the guys in the limelight. They actually said to use the competitor’s browser in the mean time (aka. Firefox). That’s how sad it was. The update just came in my notifications list so I dled it as well.
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Taylor Flatt - posted on December 21st, 2008 at 8:53 AM MST - Link
I am actually surprised it took them this long to catch an error as grievous as this. It is too sad to see people lose their lives to hackers because of someone else’s fault.
