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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Tap, tap, is this thing on?

Another Internet Explorer flaw found -- CNET News.com's Robert Lemos reports on the discovery of yet another serious insecurity in IE.
A computer science researcher has highlighted the shortcomings of Microsoft's latest patch for its Internet Explorer browser by identifying another way that online vandals could run malicious programs on a Web surfer's computer.

Microsoft on Friday released a fix that's designed to protect computers from one of three flaws that, together, could be used to digitally slip past a PC's security through the browser. This weekend, however, a security researcher identified another flaw that could serve the same purpose and that isn't fixed by Microsoft's patch.

"They chose to address only one part of the problem," said Jelmer Kuperus, a computer science student in the Netherlands who posted the code for the work-around. "They should have seen this one coming."
Okay, so why do I keep harping on this? Because IE in its present state is dangerous and it concerns me that so many people, including the friends and family who read this site, continue to use it. Mozilla's latest, Firefox, has every capability and feature of IE (except, of course, for the gaping security holes) and is free. Please give it a try.
|| Andrew, 12:13 PM || ||

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