Tag: advisory
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Microsoft releases advisory offering workarounds for IE vulnerability
German government advises users to use alternative browser. Microsoft has released a security advisory to address the zero-day vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser that we wrote about yesterday . Among the advised actions to mitigate the vulnerability are the deployment of a mitigation toolkit and turning off active scripting for all but trusted websites.…
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Patch Tuesday brings little relief from browser exploits
Six fixes issued, but new IE zero day emerges along with Firefox flaw. Microsoft has issued its monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ security update, with some serious browser flaws patched, but a new IE zero-day has been seen being exploited in the wild, and Firefox users have also been warned about a serious vulnerability. The Patch Tuesday…
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Another IE zero day exploited
Second DirectShow vulnerability in six weeks labelled ‘extremely critical’. Microsoft has issued an advisory on a serious vulnerability in an ActiveX control in its Internet Explorer browser, the second zero-day alert in the same area of the product in recent months. The issue has been flagged as ‘extremely critical’ by vulnerability watchers at Secunia ,…