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"After McAfee's disclosure of an IE 0-day vulnerability this week that had been used in Operation Aurora, the hack and stealing of data from Google, Adobe and about 3 dozen other major companies, the German government has advised the public to switch to alternative browsers. Given that the exploit has now been made public and the patch from Microsoft is still nowhere to be seen, how long will it be before other governments follow suit?"
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/16/1239212/German-Government-Advises-Public-To-Stop-Using-IE?art_pos=5
Not only has the exploit been made public, it has already been incorporated in to available hack tools.
I find this advisory particularly amusing. Just Friday I got an email from the IT director at work telling everyone that they must uninstall Firefox and can only use IE. I use IE for two things. First, on a new OS install, to download Firefox. Second, to run Windows Updates. With Vista and Win7, you no longer need IE even for that.
Color me amused.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/16/1239212/German-Government-Advises-Public-To-Stop-Using-IE?art_pos=5
Not only has the exploit been made public, it has already been incorporated in to available hack tools.
I find this advisory particularly amusing. Just Friday I got an email from the IT director at work telling everyone that they must uninstall Firefox and can only use IE. I use IE for two things. First, on a new OS install, to download Firefox. Second, to run Windows Updates. With Vista and Win7, you no longer need IE even for that.
Color me amused.
