Thursday, 12 February 2009

Internet Explorer holes - hardly newsworthy it happens so much

Two more critical vulnerabilities have been found in Microsofts web browser software as usual allowing execution of arbitrary code which in laymans terms - well any terms really - means pwning your PC and doing anything the attacker likes to you, again as usual.
Expect plenty of rogue antivirus program makers to be exploiting these vulnerabilities within 48 hours. I wonder how long til the next holes are discovered - my guess is tomorrow :) Software affected is version 7, 6 and maybe 5 of Internet Explorer and patches have been issued see here (xp) and here (vista) .