Microsoft Hurries Out IE Patch

Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
2010-01-21



The time-honored idea of "Patch Tuesday" has gone out the window (no pun intended, promise) in response to an Internet Explorer vulnerability Microsoft's classified as critical. A patch will be issued today, Thursday the 21st, in response to the threat, instead.

Microsoft Hurries Out IE Patch

This ties in to a couple of recent news stories. Remember the Google China attack that caused the search giant to threaten leaving the country? The same attack that may have affected Adobe, Dow Chemical, Northrop Grumman, Symantec, and Yahoo? The hole Microsoft's shutting today was used in that series of hacks.

Also, like the 17-year-old Windows flaw we wrote about yesterday, the IE vulnerability has been around for quite a while; an official list of affected software names everything from Windows 7 and IE 8 to Windows 2000 and Internet Explorer 5.01.


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