Latest IE security hole
p2pnet.net News:- To paraphrase a Lennon & McCartney Sgt Pepper song, They’re fixing the holes so the bugs can’t come in ….
In fact, Microsoft ‘vulnerabilities’ have taken on a life of their own.
Security companies are getting all kinds of free PR from finding Microsoft Windows ‘flaws’ – many of them critical, highly critical and extremely critical – and the media, technical and otherwise, get endless copy from the Microsoft potential for infection.
Now a Dutch computer science researcher says a partial fix Bill and the Boyz released last Friday to fix a dangerous flaw, needs fixing.
“They chose to address only one part of the problem,” computer science student Jelmer Kuperus is quoted in a ZDNet article here. “They should have seen this one coming.”
Microsoft acknowledged the latest issue and said more fixes would be forthcoming, says Zdnet, continuing:
” ‘The company is working to provide a series of security updates to Internet Explorer in coming weeks that will provide additional protection for customers,” a company representative told CNET News.com. The company will also ‘continue to actively investigate these reports’.”
America’s Homeland Security has, however, the ultimate answer:
Use a different web browser.
