More 'Serious' Internet Explorer Security Flaws Found

mashable.com:

It's been a rough few weeks for the Microsoft's Internet Explorer. First, Google revealed that Chinese hackers have used an undocumented security flaw in IE to access personal data of some of their employees. Microsoft did not immediately issue a fix, which prompted both the German and the French government to warn against using Microsoft's browser.

Now, when they've finally fixed that hole, a set of new serious security flaws has emerged.

Read the whole story: mashable.com

Comments

[AmandaBC]

03:02 PM on 01/26/2010

I don't know anyone who still uses the Exploder. Firefox rules!

[drumz]

05:07 PM on 01/26/2010

I have to use it but only to make sure the sites I build work in it; code for FF and fix for IE.
But the mozilla devs have their heads up their you know what if you ever mention wanting something in FF that IE does. I couldn't believe the pressure for wanting scroll-bar attributes. "It's not compliant". Why not? "Because we said so"!

[Krek]

05:49 PM on 01/26/2010

Agreed. Though the Vista-Aero theme add-on, which is modelled on IE, is a very nice interface.

[Cucaracha]

01:14 PM on 01/26/2010

Not surprised, IE is just an example of the trash MS makes. Try using FireFox, people. Better, try getting a mac and use Safari!

[laaambchop]

02:15 PM on 01/26/2010

Firefox is better...

[poster1122]

06:23 PM on 01/26/2010

You're kidding about Safari, right? It's the easiest of the major browsers to exploit. At the annual Cansecwest security conference for 3 or 4 years in a row, Safari was the first browser to be taken down. Last year, it got hacked in the first few seconds of the competition. The year before, the first 2 minutes.

[Unimatrix42]

11:12 AM on 01/26/2010

Good lord people... buy a Mac. They're not that expensive!

[Cryostatic]

01:48 PM on 01/26/2010

Lord no. Chrome, Safari and Opera work just fine on Windows 7, thank you.

[MaxPowerXP]

01:50 PM on 01/26/2010

Yes, please spend over $1,000 instead of, say, installing any one of the many free browsers available.

[MillinMn]

10:56 AM on 01/26/2010

Microsoft software has more security flaws?

That's a headline that has been true every day since the founding of Microsoft Corporation in 1975.

35 years later, same old, same old

[Cryostatic]

10:55 AM on 01/26/2010

Fan as I am of Windoze, you're a fool to use IE in this day and age. 60% of computer owners use IE exclusively, which means it has a big, red target on it that says "Hack me". Firefox, hovering at around 29%, is starting to attract some attention as well, so expect to find more security holes being breached there, as well, in the future.

If you're running Chrome, Safari, or Opera, you're in a bracket of

[Cryostatic]

10:57 AM on 01/26/2010

less than 5%, and are relatively safe, since nobody cares about targeting you.

On a side note, HuffPo apparently picks up a certain symbol for "less than" as an attempt to use HTML tags and deletes it, and everything after it, so mind that while posting. ;)

[MaxPowerXP]

01:49 PM on 01/26/2010

None of it matters; as long as you're installing Flash, *any* browser is a gaping security hole.

[PenguinLinux]

12:21 PM on 01/28/2010

Is that true for Gnash, the free version of Flash for Linux?