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30.11.03, 01:29
money.cnn.com/2003/11/28/technology/microsoft.reut/
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. is investigating a report of seven
new security holes in its Internet Explorer browser discovered by a Chinese
researcher, a company spokesman said on Friday.
The spokesman said Microsoft (MSFT: Research, Estimates) is not aware of
anyone actively exploiting the holes or of any impact on customers.
Two holes are critical and could allow an attacker to run a program that would
delete files, crash the machine or take control of it from a remote location,
said Russ Cooper of TruSecure Corp. who edits the NTBugTraq e-mail list.
Cooper said, however, he was not yet concerned about the security holes
because of the inactivity.
"There just aren't any new attacks being made" on Internet Explorer, he said.
The discovery of the holes was not reported directly to Microsoft but was
announced on public mailing lists, a move the Microsoft spokesman criticized.
Software companies prefer that independent researchers notify them of
potential holes in their products before they release the news to the public
so the companies have time to develop fixes for them.
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Może pora w końcu zmienić przeglądarkę?
Może na Firebirda?
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