Microsoft issuing emergency browser fix

Cybergal · Aug 6, 2008

Huge Internet Security Hole Slowly Being Fixed
8/6/08

SAN FRANCISCO A giant vulnerability in the Internet's design is allowing criminals to silently redirect traffic to Web sites under their control.

The problem is being fixed, but its extent remains unknown and many people are still at risk.

The gaping security hole enables a scam that targets ordinary people typing in a legitimate Web address. It happens because hackers are now able to manipulate the machines that help computers find Web sites.
If the trick is done properly, computer users are unlikely to detect whether they've landed at a legitimate site or an evil double maintained by someone bent on fraud.
Security experts fear an open season for virus attacks and identity-fraud scams.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,398488,00.html
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Cybergal · Aug 8, 2008

Major Internet security flaw also affects e-mail

8/8/08

LAS VEGAS - A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept e-mail messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said Wednesday.
Considering the silent nature of the attack and the sensitive nature of a lot of electronic correspondence, the potential for damage from this second security flaw is high. But there's no evidence yet that this method of targeting e-mail has been used in a successful attack.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26091252/
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Cybergal · Dec 15, 2008

12/15/08

STILL NOT FIXED

SAN FRANCISCO - Users of all current versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser might be vulnerable to having their computers hijacked because of a serious security hole in the software that had yet to be fixed Monday.
The flaw lets criminals commandeer victims' machines merely by tricking them into visiting Web sites tainted with malicious programming code. As many as 10,000 sites have been compromised since last week to exploit the browser flaw, according to antivirus software maker Trend Micro Inc.
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http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20081215/ap_on_hi_te/tec_internet_explorer_security

cplmac2 · Dec 15, 2008

You break a lot of bad news don't you....

I haven't used IE for probably 5 years, active X controls were so ridiculously exploitable and Firefox cannot even be forced to use them.

Cybergal · Dec 16, 2008

Microsoft issuing emergency browser fix

REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. is taking the unusual step of issuing an emergency fix for a security hole in its Internet Explorer software that has exposed millions of users to having their computers taken over by hackers.
The "zero-day" vulnerability, which came to light last week, allows criminals to take over victims' machines simply by steering them to infected Web sites; users don't have to download anything for their computers to get infected, which makes the flaw in Internet Explorer's programming code so dangerous. Internet Explorer is the world's most widely used Web browser.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28258894/
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