Anonymous
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3233160/Microsoft-blamed-for-Google-China-attack
Recent cyber attacks on Google and other businesses exploited a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, according to security firm McAfee.
Flib Gibbet
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Anonymous
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Sorry, but Firefox is buggy bloatware IMHO.
A much better browser is Iron, which is similar to Google Chrome, except that some cunning German chappies have removed everything in Chrome that 'reports back' to Google from it.
PS: Don't forget that Windows Update usually requires you to be using IE when you access it (or at least, that's been my experience!).
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Flib Gibbet
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And now the French have joined with the Germans in advising not to used IE France teams with Germany over IE flaws.
It will interesting to see how the browser share of market figures change during the next few months.
(Iron? that's really caught the public imagination...)
There are quite a few sites, besides Microsoft, that just do not work right unless you use IE. I keep it around for those sites.
one of the malware samples exploited IE...but it's easier to blame MS for them all...
Google Probes Possible Inside Job after China Cyber-Attack
from Daily Finance:
Anonymous
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Researchers up ante, create exploits for IE7, IE8
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143518/Chrome_sets_browser_security_standard_says_expert?
All browser makers should take a page from Google's Chrome and isolate untrusted data from the rest of the operating system, a noted security researcher said today.
JoanRC
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From what I hear, Chrome has a lot of "phone home" features built in. It sends a lot of information about your browser habits back to Google. However, it's open source. At least one company, SRWare, has come out with a Chrome version, called Iron, that has stripped out all the spyware features. Their website doesn't show that they've been developing the browser since Sept of 2008, though. I still use Opera because Secunia Software Inspector still calls it the safest browser. (That was before I switched to Linux. Secunia doesn't work on Linux.) Opera doesn't always have the best Flash support; but, I still manage to get what I want out of Youtube.
Looks like Chrome would be the best choice. Take a look at this Pwn2Own competition, its a zero day attack on browsers.I was very surprised by the results, other than Safari being the first to go down.
People always think that Macs are safer, which is completely untrue, its just that the hackers go were the money is and there are more PC's. This means Mac's are attacked less and the security flaws are not found.
The other top three browsers were taken out a little while after that by one guy and an exploit of his own making.
They said they found a security flaw in chrome, but couldnt get past the sandbox.
Miller also told reporters that he targeted Safari on Mac OS X because he believes that it is the easiest to exploit. Windows, on the other hand, he claims is tougher because of its address randomization feature and other security measures. As for Chrome, he says that he has identified a security bug in Google's browser but has been unable to exploit it because the browser's sandboxing feature and the operating system's security measures together pose a formidable challenge.
JoanRC, I'm with ya on Linux and have tried to migrate to several times, I even have several partitions setup to install linux again. I did this whenever I got windows 7.
i've just been waiting for them add support for my motherboard and processor and I'm ready to go. It's super annoying to to enter on every install pc=nomsi, half the time I still have trouble installing my video card.
The benefits though, well worth it. games and everything are so fast!
Robert
StrayCat
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-002 :
Internet Explorer Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (978207)
is available on Windows Update or download it manually.
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The new Firefox version 3.6 is available:
releasenotes FF 3.6
Anonymous
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http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2256465/mcafee-launches-operation
McAfee launches Google hack scanning tool Aurora Stinger will detect the threat and repair the machine
http://vil.nai.com/vil/averttools.aspx McAfee Labs Tools
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1587918/ancient-windows-flaw (3.1 to 7)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5268&tag=nl.e539 (kill IE6 & IE7)
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