Anonymous
Unregistered
http://www.darknet.org.uk/2011/01/internet-explorer-zero-day-accidentally-leaked-to-chinese-hackers/
Internet Explorer Zero-Day Accidentally Leaked To Chinese Hackers
The moral of the story is, once again don’t use Internet Explorer!
As right now, there is a potentially dangerous 0-day for IE in the wild
Anonymous
Unregistered
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2274050/microsoft-google-flaw-china
Microsoft and Google clash over zero-day flaw release
The release by a Google researcher of a new tool that shows up to 100 Internet Explorer zero-day flaws has sparked a war of words over responsible disclosure.
Michal Zalewski, a security researcher employed by Google, has released a debugging tool called cross_fuzz which allows researchers to expose up to 100 flaws in Microsoft’s browser
Zalewski sent the tool to Microsoft in July warning that he will release it in January, after seeing evidence of investigations into the bugs from China.
get Firefox
Anonymous
Unregistered
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2501696.mspx
Microsoft Security Advisory (2501696)
Vulnerability in MHTML Could Allow Information Disclosure
Published: January 28, 2011
Suggested Actions
Enable the MHTML protocol lockdown
Note Workarounds refer to a setting or configuration change that does not correct the underlying issue but would help block
known attack vectors before a security update is available. Microsoft has tested the following workaround and states in the discussion whether the workaround reduces functionality.
may be better to get Firefox
Anonymous
Unregistered
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/4606052/Internet-Explorer-users-exposed-to-hackers
Users of other browsers such as Google Chrome and Firefox were not affected.
The Government was reviewing the vulnerability yesterday, but had not issued an alert to corporate networks, including government agencies.
The Interim Fix a workaround.
Go to http://support. microsoft.com/kb/2501696 Scroll down and click "Fix It" under the "Enable" heading. Follow the download and installation instructions.
Read The Readme Fist.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2501696.mspx
http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/mhtml-fix-help-201954012.html
Idunnobutiwastold
Gaming Acolyte
04th March 2011.
Link to the stand-alone installer for IE9 RC :
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/downloads/ie-9/worldwide-languages
[The executable is a 19 Mb download].
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