News alert today: April 28, 2014
"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised computer users to
consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer
browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers have used
to launch attacks.
The bug is the first high-profile security flaw to emerge since
Microsoft stopped providing security updates for Windows XP earlier this
month. That means PCs running the 13-year old operating system could
remain unprotected against hackers seeking to exploit the newly
uncovered flaw, even after Microsoft figures out how to defend against
it.
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a part of
Homeland Security known as US-CERT, said in an advisory released on
Monday morning that the vulnerability in versions 6 to 11 of Internet
Explorer could lead to "the complete compromise" of an affected system."
Read more at Chicago Tribune or CNN or your favorite news source.
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