Don't Visit Websites With Microsoft IE
from the as-if-you-didn't-know-this-was-coming... dept
It really is getting ridiculously dangerous these days for anyone to keep using Microsoft IE. People always talk about the day when scammers will start to use "zero day exploits" to smash through security holes before they're patched, and that's clearly already happening. The latest move, which is fairly advanced (and many assume is being done by organized crime groups in Eastern Europe) is to hack into a variety of popular company websites and install some code to exploit a known IE vulnerability that has not been patched by Microsoft. Once this is done, any IE user visiting any of these websites (which they obviously would assume to be safe based on the companies involved) ends up with some of the most insidious keylogging spyware. The article won't list the companies, but from the descriptions they sound like sites anyone might visit on a regular basis (banks, auction sites and comparison shopping engines). This sounds quite similar to the Interland hack from last year, but could impact many more users.
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surfers are safe
Don't get me wrong, I do use and prefer Firefox. There's just been a lot of misunderstanding about this current development, and only because CNET, Slashdot, Techdirt, aren't reading the Internet Storm Center article carefully.
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So you got any concrete info to these insidious bugs that we can look up?
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But e.g.
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/
talks about a "firefox security hole", dated June 15th. If these other browsers are so bulletproof, how come they keep coming out with new versions?
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I just wanted you to back your statement.
However I DO believe that Mozilla fixes its holes way faster than IE *AND* that on average its holes are way smaller than IE which basically lets everyone run roughshod over the whole OS.
You will note that the hole I believe you are mentionning isn't Mozilla-only AND that its been fixed already in Firefox.
Anyway...
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