Rudeboy2025 Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 A newly discovered flaw in Internet Explorer could allow hackers to take " complete control" of compromised systems, according to a Microsoft security advisory issued today.The flaw, uncovered by security service vendor SEC Consult, is in an interface to a debugger in the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine.The vulnerability could be exploited either by getting an unwitting user to visit a specially designed web page or by hackers embedding code in a legitimate web page."Microsoft is investigating a new public report of a vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer," the software giant said in a statement."We have not been made aware of any attacks attempting to use the reported vulnerability or any customer impact at this time, but we are aggressively investigating the public report."The flaw affects Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0. Danish security analysts Secunia has rated the flaw 'highly critical' and recommends setting internet and local intranet security zone settings to 'High'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsane Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 So us using the Sun Java packages are safe? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Who knows.... ? Most of these "warnings" are probably just hype. If it's serious enough, a KB will be issued.Rudeboy - Can you please post the source of your news article? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudeboy2025 Posted July 5, 2005 Author Share Posted July 5, 2005 Hmm, didn't have a source but found it at torrentspy.com Guess you can call that a source.EDIT - Again because of no source I did a search and found the source.http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/b...cleId=165600487 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preso Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 @Sam, got it...hereScary...the bar is....Browser TestEdit - @nsane...is this a help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest justice4all Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Hi all.....that browser test reminds me of when I got my hotmail account hacked, same thing, they asked for a user name and password, it looked authentic. There should be more word out on Saftey Tests(for newbies anyway :D )...if only I knew!Any word on Internet Explorer 7 coming out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erRor67 Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Lol... Justice4all, you actually believed that?? ROFL, thats great..... I saw so many articles (many of them can be found of Kazaa) and its just so stupid.. :lol: Hacking passwords is a lot harder than just writting down ur username and ur password. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Nothing new :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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