In case you haven’t heard elsewhere, there’s a nifty unpatched vulnerability for Internet Explorer floating around. And it’s actively being exploited. Metasploit, an exploit toolkit used by penetration testers and script kiddies alike, is able to detect and utilize it. Under these circumstances, Microsoft has been known to rush out a patch before the next [...]
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Don’t use Internet Explorer this Christmas
by Dave Farquhar on December 24, 2010
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Posted by Dave Farquhar on December 24, 2010
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