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Elite hacker gang pulls out another IE zero-day from bottomless pocket

Elite hacker gang pulls out another IE zero-day from bottomless pocket | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
From www.computerworld.com - January 4, 2013 4:45 PM
An elite hacker group credited last year with having an inexhaustible supply of zero-day vulnerabilities was responsible for digging up and first using the newest unpatched bug in Internet Explorer (IE), a Symantec manager today.
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BETTER is any way to update ALL the browsers to the newest published versions! Checkout:

 

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/get-smart-with-5-minutes-tutorialsit-securitypart-1-browsers/

 

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/cyber-hygiene-ict-hygiene-for-population-education-and-business/

 

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IE zero-day used in targeted watering hole attacks

IE zero-day used in targeted watering hole attacks | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
From www.net-security.org - January 2, 2013 11:14 AM

News that an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability was being and has been for quite some time been used in a new "watering hole" attack has livened the otherwise uneventful last week of 2012.

 

The exploited website was that of the Council on Foreign Relations, an organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, among whose members are a number of high-profile U.S. government and political figures such as former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, former treasury secretary Robert Rubin, and many others.

 

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The browsers are the gateway for malware!

 

        ===> They MUST get updated <===, check here:

 

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/cyber-hygiene-ict-hygiene-for-population-education-and-business/

 

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/get-smart-with-5-minutes-tutorialsit-securitypart-1-browsers/

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