Security hole in Internet Explorer
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Anyone who’s worked around computers for any length of time has probably seen the above statement several times. The latest issue, which you may have seen in the news, is the ‘cyber attacks’ on Google where hackers accessed Googlemail accounts of civil rights activists in China. Google then threatened they would pull out of the Chinese market. This sent a mild ripple of panic across a large portion of Europe where government officials advised to stop using IE. The actual press release wording was “the vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer”. Hackers and code jockeys are always going to try and break the ‘big boys’ code it’s always been the way of things “I got one up on Bill Gates” yak yak. Good news for the rivals though; Opera, Chrome (which I use and thinks great!) and Mozilla’s Firefox.
