Microsoft working to fix new Internet Explorer flaw
An AP newswire article, via The Mercury News, reports that:
Microsoft Corp. was working Friday to come up with a fix for a flaw in its Internet Explorer browser that could let hackers gain remote access to computer systems through malicious Web sites.
A patch was not immediately available, though some security experts played down the risk.
"If the user doesn't browse a malicious Web site, then the user isn't even under attack,'' said Gerhard Eschelbeck, chief technology officer at Qualys Inc., a security company based in Redwood Shores, Calif.
The vulnerability is a problem in the way Internet Explorer handles certain pieces of data that are optional components in various programs.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker said it knew of no customers who had been attacked.
posted by Fergie @ 8/19/2005 03:39:00 PM
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