2011 is already shaping up to be a busy year for Microsoft from a security standpoint, as a reputed researcher warns that Internet Explorer might be suffering from a critical vulnerability already known to third parties.
On January 1, Michal Zalewski aka "lcamtuf," a well known browser security researcher who currently works for Google, published a stack trace for a potentially exploitable Internet Explorer crash.The trace was obtained with a self-developed fuzzing tool called cross_fuzz, which was shared with Microsoft and other vendors privately in mid-2010.
Do you know what, I'm not at all surprised by any vulnerability found in IE anymore. Microsoft should just either scrap it and start again or withdraw it until they've patched the security issues with it. It'll never compete with others.
Any user interested in security or using a computer constructively, rather than just using myface and twitbook all the time knows not to use Internet Explorer, it fails on so many levels. They keep releasing new versions trying to improve the software, and eventually it all ends in tears and hours worth of patching to be done.
I can't stand IE, every 5 minutes it crashes, it's slow, downloading is awful, the popup blocker is rubbish, doesn't work what so ever.
I'm pretty much certain I wouldn't be able to find a single "hacker/computer based person" that uses Internet Explorer as their primary browser, either Firefox or Google Chrome are the best two on the market.
At my college, they use Internet Explorer, I got so pissed with how crap it was, I soon sorted that issue out. Good ol' portable USB firefox...
It really isn't looking good for microsoft. By the sounds of it they disclosed because the chinese were looking into bugs in IE. I get the feeling the chinese are going to become a lot more active soon.
almost every exploit i have ever found related to IE involved having active scripting on. any idiot who turns on active scripting deserves what he gets IMO
thanks. i'll just add: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cross_fuzz/ for convenience. pretty interesting stuff, can't make any use of it myself at a glance, but meh! :P