thewayne: (Cyranose)
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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/
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