US and UK Governments Advise Avoiding Internet Explorer Until Bug Fixed

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 28, 2014 @09:32AM from the patch-please dept.

martiniturbide (1203660) writes "Reuters is reporting that 'The U.S. and UK governments on Monday advised computer users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers used to launch attacks.' The article states that 'The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team said in an advisory released on Monday that the vulnerability in versions 6 to 11 of Internet Explorer could lead to "the complete compromise" of an affected system.'"

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Re:Some people don't care by edman007 · 2014-04-28 10:14 · Score: 4, Interesting

Don't worry, I work in a government agency, IE8 is the only authorized browser (with java of course), and if you gained access to that computer you would have plenty of access to sensitive (but not classified) stuff.