Dump Internet Explorer now?
News have been going around stated “Should you dump Internet Explorer, NOW?” Reasons: There have been security breaches on any of the version of Microsoft’s browser — IE6, IE7, IE8 and forget someday releasing IE9.
Reports from (betanews.com). On Thursday (Jan 14), McAfee pegged a previously publicly unknown Internet Explorer exploit as one of the mechanisms used to invade computers or networks among more than 20 U.S. companies. On Tuesday (Jan. 12), Google disclosed the security breaches, which were traced back to China. McAfee dubbed the attacks “Operation Aurora.” On Friday (Jan. 15), McAfee and Microsoft reported that code for the zero-day exploit was in the wild, potentially putting millions of Windows PCs at risk.Bott singled out IE6, presumably because of Microsoft’s cleverly worded Thursday blog post, security bulletin and statements to the press. From Thursday’s blog post: “Microsoft has not seen widespread customer impact, rather only targeted and limited attacks exploiting IE 6 at this time.” Bott writes: The entry point? According to Microsoft, it’s IE6.”
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