Microsoft To Ship Emergency IE Patch 187
Grotendo writes "Microsoft plans to release an emergency patch for Internet Explorer very soon to counter targeted attacks and the publication of exploit code for a 'browse and you're owned' vulnerability in its flagship Web browser. The out-of-band update will be released once the company is satisfied that it has been properly tested against all affected versions of Windows. This could happen as early as this weekend." Microsoft has downplayed the seriousness of the IE zero-day, and insisted that it affects only IE6 even as security researchers close in on exploits for IE7 and IE8. Microsoft has had no comment about the firestorm that Google unleashed by directly accusing the Chinese of cyber espionage. ShadowServer has up a sobering post on the massive extent of the problem of "groups that can be referred to as the Advanced Persistent Threat."
Countering attacks? (Score:4, Interesting)
Microsoft is not "countering the targeted attacks".
Unless of course the German and France CERT teams recommendation to ditch IE is considered one.
Re:IE is only good at one thing... (Score:4, Interesting)
The sound of Windows update running is drilled into my mind forever.. Click.. click click click.. click. click.. click click click click click.
My mind constantly asking "what the.. i haven't clicked a damned thing"
Re:Enough is enough! (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm running similar code on my site, and yet many of the "visitors" are still using IE6. I suspect most of those are bots, because of the traffic pattern looking for Registration and Forum pieces.
It is sad when you can spot a bot by the UserAgent.
Re:Enough is enough! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:IE is only good at one thing... (Score:3, Interesting)
How many people on slashdot still run XP to avoid the bloat of Vista/7.
Quite a few I would imagine....
I like these "Your browser is out of date" sites (Score:3, Interesting)
You're training them to download stuff from the web, from sites they don't regularly visit / don't trust, because a popup told them to.
Well done.