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Several Critical MSIE Flaws Uncovered
An anonymous reader writes "Several flaws have been uncovered by security firm eEye in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The flaws allow remote compromise of computers running Windows Operating Systems and affect IE, Outlook and possibly other MS software. With the next MS Windows security bulletin release scheduled for June 14, 2005 news sources are reporting that in comparison with the Mozilla Foundation's prompt fix for the recently reported Mozilla 1.0.3 vulnerabilities MS appear to be leaving a large window for the possible malicious exploitation of these flaws."
Is it just me, or have there been a ton of browser vulnerabities discovered recently? It seems that every couple of weeks or so there is a hole found in IE or Firefox/Mozilla or others even. Are security firms concentrating their efforts on browsers or are browsers simply more inherently insecure than most other software?
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I have often also wondered about all those flaws that have been discovered and not declared, just quitely made use of. At least with open source the oppurtunity for discovery as well as a rapid fix has become obvious.
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