Internet Explorer
Microsoft Internet Explorer Loses Market Share in Europe
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has lost market share in major European markets, such as France, Britain and Italy, after the U.S. software firm started to make it easier for European consumers to use competing browsers. Microsoft’s pledge to allow easier access to rival browsers in Windows by the middle of May, ended a long antitrust dispute [...]
Google will no longer support IE 6
Google is going to stop supporting IE 6, since vulnarabilities in this version of the popular web browser caused recent attacks on a lot of companies including Google. The security hole in IE allowed the hacker to install a trojan program on the users computer after visiting certain websites. Previously German anf French government have [...]
Microsoft recommends to upgrade to IE 8
Microsoft has recommended all users who have not yet upgraded to IE 8 from IE 6 version to do so now, since the main reason behind the recent attacks on a number of well-known companies was greatly because of IE 6 security hole. IE 8 users have not encountered any problems during this period, may [...]
Microsoft patching IE hole
Microsoft said it is working around the clock to patch an Internet Explorer 6 software hole through which China-based cyber spies attacked Google and other firms. Microsoft is testing a security fix and will make it available as soon as it is ready instead of following its protocol of releasing security updates the second Tuesday [...]
Germany calls for Internet Explorer ban
After Microsoft has agreed that the recent attacks on Google were partly because of the Internet Explorer security breach, German Federal Office for Information Security called to find an alternative browser to replace the world’s most common one. The Microsoft represantative in Germany questions this judgement, saying that attacks on Google were made by very [...]
Zero-Day patch for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7
A dangerous vulnerability in Internet Explorer became known to publicity before a fix was available, raising the probability of zero-days attacks. The new bug involves the way IE handles Cascading Style Sheets objects(CSS is currently the most popular web-design technique), and could allow an attacker to execute any type of code on a targeted Windows [...]
Metasploit Releases IE Attack but calls it “unreliable”
The Microsoft Internet Explorer security bug that was disclosed last week yet again takes our attention – this time developers of the open-source Metasploit penetration testing toolkit have released code that can compromise IE browser, however the code cannot be called reliable. As the developers said tehmselves – the bug is unreliable, you can’t be [...]