Ask the average techie which browser has the most vulnerabilities, and odds are their answer will be “Internet Explorer, of course.” Indeed, Microsoft’s browser has endured plenty of slings and arrows — and not entirely without justification — but some of those projectiles should deservedly be aimed at Apple, Mozilla, and Google.
Despite Google Chrome‘s strong security track record and increasing popularity, financial institution Chase has announced that it will drop support for the
Microsoft said it will deliver 10 security updates next week to patch a record-tying 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, and SharePoint.
It’s easy to take shots at Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and make snarky references to “Grandma’s browser.” But despite a shift from IE in the consumer market, when it comes to business, Microsoft’s browser is still the choice of three out of four users. And when businesses do drop nine-year-old IE6, they are deploying IE8 instead of glitzier competitors like Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome.
Whatever you use to surf the Web needs a fix.
Microsoft on Tuesday shipped 2010′s second rush update for Internet Explorer (IE), patching 10 vulnerabilities — including one hackers have been exploiting for weeks.
Two researchers yesterday won $10,000 each at the Pwn2Own hacking contest by bypassing important security measures of Windows 7.
Both Peter Vreugdenhil of the Netherlands and a German researcher who only would give his first name of Nils, found ways to disable DEP (data execution prevention) and ASLR (address space layout randomization), two of Windows 7′s most vaunted anti-exploit features. Each faced down the fully-patched 64-bit version of Windows 7 and came out the winner.
Criminals are stepping up their attacks leveraging an unpatched flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, using it to install fake antivirus products and malicious back doors on victim’s computers.
Microsoft said it is testing a patch for a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE), but stopped short of promising to deliver an emergency fix before the next scheduled Patch Tuesday, which is April 13, more than four weeks away.
Exploit code for the unpatched bug in Internet Explorer was published on the Web yesterday, a step security pros said earlier would be the precursor to widespread attacks.
Microsoft told Windows XP users today not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site, as part of its reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers could exploit to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer (IE).
Microsoft on Sunday confirmed it’s investigating an unpatched bug in VBScript that hackers could exploit to plant malware on Windows XP machines running Internet Explorer (IE).
Apple’s Safari will be the first browser to fall next month at the Pwn2Own hacking challenge, the contest organizer predicted today.
A researcher who has won at Pwn2Own the last two years wasn’t so sure.
Microsoft warned on Wednesday that a flaw in its Internet Explorer browser gives attackers access to files stored on a PC under certain conditions.
“Our investigation so far has shown that if a user is using a version of Internet Explorer that is not running in Protected Mode an attacker may be able to access files with an already known filename and location,” Microsoft said in a security advisory.
Google has announced that Google Docs will drop support for Microsoft’s nearly nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser starting on March 1.
Welcome to part four of my four-part series of articles discussing significant security improvements and changes found in Windows 7. In part one, I provided an overview of some noteworthy security deltas. In part two, I delved into XP Mode. Part three cracked open AppLocker.
Chinese computer users are five times more likely than U.S. users to be targeted by hackers exploiting the just-patched bug in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, a Web metrics company said today.
The first widespread attack to leverage a recently patched flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has surfaced.
As Microsoft patched the Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability that was used to break into Google’s network, it also acknowledged that it had known of the bug since August 2009, when an Israeli security company reported the flaw.
Mozilla yesterday reported a “huge increase” in downloads of Firefox in Germany after that country’s computer security agency urged users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) to dump the browser and run a rival instead.
