Tag: internet explorer
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MS to release out-of-band patch for critical IE vulnerability
Users advised to patch ASAP. Microsoft is set to release an emergency out-of-band patch for the vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser reported last week. Attacks via the vulnerability have been shown to work on a wide range of Windows and IE variants, and have been widely seeded to both malicious websites and legitimate sites…
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IE zero-day danger growing
Large numbers of users vulnerable to unpatched problem. The as-yet unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft ‘s Internet Explorer browser, reported last week and coinciding with the release of the monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ security updates, is becoming more serious by the day as more and more infected websites appear to be attempting to exploit the flaw to…
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IE8 to include malware filtering
New features list includes upgrade to security provision. The next version of Microsoft ‘s Internet Explorer web browser, IE8 , could include malware detection as standard, in an improvement to the current phishing filter provided in IE7 . Details of a range of new additions to the browser accompanied the recent beta of IE8 ,…
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RealPlayer zero-day flaw exploited
Manufacturer responds rapidly to serious security hole. A zero-day vulnerability in the popular media playing system RealPlayer was spotted being exploited in the wild late last week, with several trojans penetrating vulnerable systems from malicious websites in silent drive-by downloads. The flaw is in a piece of code previously exploited to cause denial of service,…