Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft Issues Workaround For IE 0-Day
Orome1 writes "Microsoft has issued a security advisory with advice on how to patch a Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability recently spotted being exploited in the wild by attackers that might be the same ones that are behind the Nitro attacks. News that there is a previously unknown Internet Explorer vulnerability that is actively being misused in the wild by attackers that are believed to be the same ones that are behind the Nitro attacks has reverberated all over the Internet yesterday."
The work around is load firefox or chrome.
What does this even mean? Is it the same 0-day? Is it a different 0-day? Can we get some editing up in this bitch or what?
There's so many it doesn't really matter. They'll be another next month, and the month after that, and the month after that.... You can safely assume that at any given instant there exists at least one active zero-day infecting IE users.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
The question is why you need to manage a browser so much.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure