Internet Explorer

IE zero-day used in targeted watering hole attacks

January 2, 2013

News that an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability was being and has been for quite some time been used in a new “watering hole” attack has livened the …

Microsoft to release five critical bulletins

December 7, 2012

Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2012 contains seven bulletins; five critical and two important. Bulletin 1 adversely affects Internet Explorer 9 …

Yahoo! will disregard Do Not Track requests from IE 10 users

October 30, 2012

As more and more browser developers add the support for the Do Not Track header to their products, and since Microsoft’s decision of making IE10 have the Do Not Track on …

Microsoft releases Windows 8

October 25, 2012

Microsoft today announced the global availability of Windows 8. Beginning Friday, Oct. 26, consumers and businesses worldwide will be able to experience all that Windows 8 has …

Microsoft patches IE zero-day and Flash flaws in IE 10

September 21, 2012

Microsoft has delivered on its promise and has issued a security update for Internet Explorer to address the zero-day memory-corruption vulnerability in versions 9 and earlier …

Microsoft offers Fix it for IE zero-day, announces security update

September 20, 2012

Microsoft has released the Fix it solution for the IE zero-day memory-corruption vulnerability that is currently being exploited in attacks, and has promised a security update …

Microsoft promises fast fix for IE zero-day as new attacks are discovered

September 19, 2012

The problem of the remotely-exploitable IE zero-day memory-corruption vulnerability that is being misused in current attacks has reached a critical enough level for Microsoft …

Microsoft issues workaround for IE 0-day exploited in current attacks

September 18, 2012

Microsoft has issued a security advisory with advice on how to patch a Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability recently spotted being exploited in the wild by attackers that …

Apache HTTP Server set to ignore IE10’s Do Not Track request

September 10, 2012

Microsoft’s decision to make Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 have the “Do Not Track” (DNT) option turned on by default has stirred a heated discussion …

Microsoft confirms IE10 will have “Do Not Track” on by default

August 8, 2012

When Microsoft released the preview of Internet Explorer 10 at the beginning of June and announced that in Windows 8 the browser will be sending a “Do Not Track” …

Fake Flash update leads to malicious add-ons

June 25, 2012

Fake Flash update notifications are old news, but users still fall for the trick. In the latest example unearthed by Zscaler’s Julien Sobrier, one such notification …

Unpatched Microsoft flaw actively exploited in the wild

June 18, 2012

When Microsoft released a security advisory detailing a critical flaw in Microsoft XML Core Services and its corresponding “Fix it” mitigation solution last week, …