Millions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) users of all versions may have to to forego using it for now unless they want to risk personal info stored in their PCs to get stolen. It was all over the blogosphere this week that a security flaw was detected and some malicious hackers took advantage of this lapse and stole thousands of passwords saved.
Even if only online game passwords were reportedly stolesn, some experts are not discounting there could be some unreported cases that did more damage that what was expected.
The security loophole was confirmed by Microsoft in this excerpt from telegraph.co.uk:
The flaw allows criminal gangs to take control of people’s computers and steal their personal information when they visit websites that have been corrupted by malicious hackers. It is believed that as many 10,000 sites have been compromised since last week.
Microsoft said that it had detected attacks on machines using Internet Explorer 7, the most widely-used version of the browser, but that other versions are “potentially vulnerable”.
"We are actively investigating the vulnerability that these attacks attempt to exploit," the firm, which also makes the Windows operating system, said in a security statement.
"We will continue to monitor the threat environment and update this advisory if this situation changes."
Security experts are advising IE users to switch to any web browsers for the time being until they have installed the latest security patch from Microsoft. For more updates about this patch and on how to install it, just visit click this LINK.
Even if only online game passwords were reportedly stolesn, some experts are not discounting there could be some unreported cases that did more damage that what was expected.
The security loophole was confirmed by Microsoft in this excerpt from telegraph.co.uk:
The flaw allows criminal gangs to take control of people’s computers and steal their personal information when they visit websites that have been corrupted by malicious hackers. It is believed that as many 10,000 sites have been compromised since last week.
Microsoft said that it had detected attacks on machines using Internet Explorer 7, the most widely-used version of the browser, but that other versions are “potentially vulnerable”.
"We are actively investigating the vulnerability that these attacks attempt to exploit," the firm, which also makes the Windows operating system, said in a security statement.
"We will continue to monitor the threat environment and update this advisory if this situation changes."
Security experts are advising IE users to switch to any web browsers for the time being until they have installed the latest security patch from Microsoft. For more updates about this patch and on how to install it, just visit click this LINK.
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