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Web Site Attacks Against Unpatched IE Flaw Spike

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-a-good-spike dept.

An anonymous reader wrote to mention a Washingtonpost.com article about an increase in attacks against IE users via a critical, unpatched flaw. The bug allows software to be downloaded to the vulnerable PC even if the only act the user takes is browsing to a web site. From the article: "[A] password-stealing program landed on the Windows PC belonging to Reaz Chowdhury, a programmer for Oracle Corp. who works out of his home in Orlando, Fla. Chowdhury said he's not sure which site he browsed in the past 24 hours that hijacked his browser, but he confirmed that the attackers had logged the user name and password for his company's virtual private network (VPN)."

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  1. Patch released! by spaztik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Download here:
    http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

  2. "... said he's not sure which site he browsed..." by UberOogie · · Score: 5, Funny

    *cough*porn*cough*

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  3. Ugh by ZombieRoboNinja · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know this is Slashdot, but can we at least have our grammar Nazis spell "grammatically" correctly?

  4. Re:Ugh by dotpavan · · Score: 4, Funny

    spelling Nazi criticizing grammar nazi :)

  5. Re:nope by UberOogie · · Score: 4, Funny

    You and your facts and your articles, bah. It's funnier my way.

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  6. Was the City of Tuttle, Oklahoma... by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    one of the sites that has been "hacked" to exploit this flaw?

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  7. Re:This is becomming not funny by kpainter · · Score: 3, Funny

    "They have to do MASSIVE regression testing." Ahhh, that explains it. It must be working because IE regresses with each and every day.

  8. Re:Ugh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why they lost WW2.

  9. And the bottom line is ... by RockDoctor · · Score: 3, Funny

    FTFA : Case in point: One guy I contacted to tell him his site was serving up this exploit code went to check his home page and then told me his browser just crashed on him. I had to ask: "Don't tell me you just visited the site in IE?" He had. I could only shake my head and sigh.

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    THIS IS UNSATISFACTORY.
    GOES OUT AND FINDS granite WALL.
    BEATS HEAD AGAINST IT.
    MUCH BETTER!

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