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IE 0-Day Flaw Used In Chinese Attack

Posted by timothy on from the zero-is-where-you-start-counting dept.

bheer writes "A zero-day attack on IE was used to carry out the cyber attack on Google and others that's been getting so much ink recently, reports The Register, quoting McAfee's CTO. While the web (and security) community has pointed out the problems with IE's many security flaws (and its sluggish update cycle) in the past, IE shows no sign of vanishing from the corporate landscape."

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  1. Re:It's not stupidity by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    try getting into bed with IBM, the darling of the OSS crowd. THEN you'll know what vendor lock in is.

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  2. Re:A major security flaw in IE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    IE should really be called IB, for Internet Bumsplorer! LOL! On Linux it would be called IC, for Internet Cripple.