Internet explorer security threat

This update was released to Windows operating systems including Windows XP — which Microsoft officially stopped supporting on April 8 th of Darien Kindlund, Director of threat research, stated the attacks appeared to focus on industrial espionage, targeting intellectual property or corporate secrets. To carry out the attack, someone in the targeted company would receive an email.

This email would include a link to a website the hackers controlled. The victim would click on the link to visit a page that would compromise their system. Although this particular group was not interested in the computers of regular consumers, the computer code necessary to carry out these types of attacks may be dispersed to less sophisticated hacker groups looking to steal credit card information.

If you do not have Windows Updates enabled, be sure to turn automatic updates on, update your system manually or contact Ontech Systems for assistance in updating your system. Internet Security. Up next. This active vulnerability is found in the way internet explorer handles memory Qihoo , a china based security research team helped Microsoft in finding this flaw.

News Startups. Microsoft also diligently issues patches which are free to update products as new vulnerabilities are discovered.

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