Internet Explorer susceptible to new market share vulnerability
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Jim Barksdale is probably laughing his fool head off. Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer, the Web browser with which Microsoft crushed Barksdale&#39;s Netscape Navigator, is slipping in popularity and it&#39;s Microsoft&#39;s own damn fault.
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Microsoft continues to take its browser dominance for granted, and it&#39;s starting to get spanked as a result. The market share of Internet Explorer has been slipping since June, and the latest figures show that the decline continues.
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Fixes made for "critical" JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey application suite.
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New computer code that exploits a recently disclosed hole in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer Web browser is circulating on the Internet and could allow remote attackers to take full control of vulnerable Windows machines, according to warnings from antivirus companies and Internet security experts.
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TechWeb - Two new vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 6.0 -- unveiled by a security firm Wednesday -- could be exploited by hackers to bypass security features in Microsoft's Windows XP SP2.
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New vulnerabilities include a critical flaw in Internet Explorer and a "major" bug in Firefox.
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Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer, used on a machine with the Mozilla Foundation&#39;s Firefox browser installed, can create a pass-along security breach, according to security researchers.
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Blog: Symantec technology creates new protection for Internet Explorer users.
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Blog: Updates address some critical vulnerabilities in the popular browser.
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The &quot;highly critical&quot; vulnerabilities stem from a flaw in IE&#39;s drag-and-drop feature and in the browser&#39;s security zone.
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Recent months have been terrible for Internet Explorer. Their have been tons of bug and security flaw reported. So much so, many security agencies have started recommending people who surf online to shift to alternate browsers.
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A new variant of the MyDoom worm that exploits an unpatched flaw in Microsoftâs Internet Explorer browser has emerged to threaten small business and home users in particular, security experts warned this week.
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Gartner analyst David Smith told LinuxInsider that many of those who switch from dominant browser Internet Explorer do so because of security concerns.
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(InfoWorld) - Hackers have discovered a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer, and they've released code that could be used to attack users of Microsoft Corp.'s popular browser. The vulnerability is similar to a bug thatÂ Microsoft patched last month in a multimedia component of Internet Explorer, according to Vincent Hwang, a group product manager with Symantec's Security Response team. Though a sample exploit of the vulnerability was posted Wednesday by hackers on the xsec.org Web site, Symantec has yet to see the code used in any attacks, according to Hwang. To take advantage of the exploit code, attackers would first need to trick users into viewing a maliciously encoded Web page, but they could then run unauthorized code on a victim's computer. It is unclear right now which versions of Windows and Internet Explorer are affected by the vulnerability. Researchers at Secunia said they were able to create a "fully working" exploit for the latest version of Windows XP running Internet Explorer 6. Windows 2000 users are also vulnerable, Secunia said. Microsoft security researchers were unavailable to comment on the issue, but a spokesman for the company's public relations agency said that the matter was under investigation. Symantec calls the bug "critical," andÂ Secunia rates the issue as "highly critical," its most severe rating. The xsec.org hackers referred to their code as a 0day, meaning an exploit for a previously undisclosed vulnerability. But one well-known hacker said the flaw was not difficult to find using publicly available security tools, such as the AxMan ActiveX fuzzing software. "Calling it 0day is a stretch," said HD Moore, the head of the Metasploit project, via e-mail. Moore wrote an automated ActiveX testing tool called AxMan that uncovered a handful of IE bugs, including the one exploited by on xsec.org. Although Moore recently launched a project called the Month of Browser Bugs, in which he disclosed a new browser vulnerability every day for the month of July, he said he had refrained from disclosing this particular vulnerability. "This is one of the many exploitable bugs that can be discovered using AxMan and one of the few that I didn't include in Month of Browser bugs due to the ease of exploitation," he said. "I still have three or four left in IE that have similar impact." This is the second unpatched flaw that Microsoft is looking at patching right now. Earlier this month, attackers began exploiting a vulnerability in the company's Word software.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer is continuing to lose share in the browser market, as its much-smaller competitors chisel at its dominant position, new Web site visitor data shows.
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Two recently disclosed vulnerabilities that affect Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista could let hackers nab user data.
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Critical Opera and Firefox bugs menace IE-refuseniks There's bad news for users of alternative browsers this Friday, with both Opera and Firefox subject to security vulnerabilities.â¦