Just a heads up to all, sounds like a legit issue.
[b]Reuters
8:38 a.m. CDT, April 28, 2014
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised computer users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers have used to launch attacks.[/b]
I’m eagerly awaiting the introduction of an “DHS Internet Threat Warning” scale to inform the great unwashed when it’s safe to venture into cyperspace.
All kidding aside, this is another one of those issues that is going to seriously bit us in the ass one day. The majority of the public, myself included, blithely go about our days assuming that “they” (those uber-smart tech geeks that actually understand how the intergoogle works) are diligently toiling away in their cube-farms insuring that our financial records, electrical grids, air-traffic control systems, you name it, are all safeguarded against the bad guys. I suspect if the truth of how vulnerable many of these systems are were public knowledge folks would freak the **** out.
I’m more concerned that I’m going to wake up some day and see every account I have deleted than I am a mushroom cloud on the horizon.
People still use IE??
my thought exactly
My Mom is still on AOL. :suicide:
Apparently most still use it.
“Versions 6 to 11 of Internet Explorer dominate desktop browsing, accounting for 55 percent of the PC browser market, according to tech research firm NetMarketShare. Google Inc’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox account for the majority of the rest of the traffic.”
The day we strayed from NetScape is when we went wrong.
I think most tech guy knew this. About five years ago. Thought it was common knowledge that Internet Explore was not the most secure browser out there.
DHS just figured out iE is a no no? I feel safer already…
The entire DoD, for one.
All browsers have vulnerabilities, this new zero day is primarily an XP exploit executed through an IE drive by. iE has a larger deployed base therefore you write exploits against it to ensure the largest possible attack surface.
Java and flash are still far and away the most exploited pieces of software on your PC for the very same reasons as stated above.
So don’t sit smugly behind chrome or Firefox thinking you’re smarter or immune.
The exploit is actually a flash exploit as well as a windows and IE exploit.
Correct.
I don’t have a choice at work…
Ooof… and yeah, it’s a case where those users are probably too lost to even identify obvious nondesired function. I’ve been happy with my last two computers because even running vanilla windows, thanks to GPU software that came w/ Chrome, I’ve never had to run IE on either. With IETab, I can still use garbage .gov/.mil websites that only work properly on IE (or rather leave diarrhea on the sheets less so with IE).
And DOS.
On July 7, 2009 Ixquick launched Startpage.com to offer its service at a URL that is both easier to remember and spell, and in contrast to ixquick.com, fetches results from the Google search engine. This is done without saving the users’ IP addresses or giving any personal user information to Google’s servers.
Wife only uses IE, work and home. Won’t even try Chrome or FireFox…Her office just went MS 7 from XP.
I refuse to use google for anything. I dumped gmail two years ago and use duckduckgo for searches.
People still use XP? 