If you're using Internet Explorer, stop.

[thewayne]

Yesterday Microsoft announced a zero-day exploit in the wild that was being actively used against people running IE versions 6 through 11. There is no true fix, but there are a couple of things that can be done to help. First, stop using IE is the recommendation from the US and UK governments. There's plenty of other good browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Epic, Opera, etc. Second, update your Flash player. If you must use IE, and you're running versions 10 or 11, there are a couple of things that you can do to protect yourself.

Krebs warning on the IE exploit: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/04/microsoft-warns-of-attacks-on-ie-zero-day/

Krebs writeup on updating Flash: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/04/adobe-update-nixes-flash-player-zero-day/

Comments

[silveradept]

The price of being the browser everyone uses by default. If only they didn't force people to use it for things like Windows Update...

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I've been a Firefox user for ages, including at work. I was amused when The Powers That Be at my previous employer announced that Thou Shalt Use IE and put no other browsers before me. So I did.

Of course, I always had my MacBook Pro with me running Firefox over the same network.

Microsoft has announced a patch for this particular vulnerability, including one for XP!

[silveradept]

Good. Glad that Microsoft is making sure everything gets patched.