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Google Fixes Desktop Search IE Vulnerability

Robin Arnfield writes in CIO Today:

Google has strengthened its Desktop Search tool so that it cannot be used any longer by hackers who are exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer software.

Last week, Matan Gillon, an Israeli security researcher, reported that he had found a way to use an Internet Explorer vulnerability in conjunction with Google Desktop Search to penetrate Windows PCs and obtain personal information from them.

There is a fault in the way that IE processes Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) rules, Gillon wrote in a Web posting. CSS, a method for creating common fonts and formats for Web pages, is used extensively on the Internet.

posted by Fergie @ 12/06/2005 07:01:00 AM