Yeah sometime many of our local website are have plugin and there more go to IE. When you use other web browser some their plugin will not works. especially gov web that use window server. They have no choice to use IE. That why sometime we cant change to other browser, you can check which once gov site use win server and only their plugin work use IE.
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:56 PM, CL Chow <[email protected]> wrote: > How about not using IE at all??? > There's plenty of fantastic browsers around.... > > Regards, > CL Chow > "Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send > OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/"; > > > > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Mohd Fazli Azran Abd Malek < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Somehow somewhat need to push malaysian people use IE8 now. Many user use >> Window XP at their office and home. Please give awareness to all friend, you >> staff and others to update IE use latest IE8. >> >> This advertisement by OWASP Malaysia Chapter :) >> >> Regards >> Mohd Fazli Azran >> >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Mohd Fazli Azran Abd Malek < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Microsoft today shipped 2010's second rush update for Internet Explorer >>> (IE), patching 10 vulnerabilities -- including one hackers have been >>> exploiting for weeks. >>> >>> That bug had been reported to Microsoft by a Beijing security company >>> before news broke that it was being used by attackers. In fact, Microsoft >>> wrapped up work on the fix for IE6 by Feb. 26, according to date stamps on >>> the affected file. The update, tagged >>> MS10-018<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-018.mspx>, >>> was released two weeks early because Microsoft had tracked a growing >>> number of attacks against IE6 and IE7. The bug has been used by malicious >>> sites to launch drive-by attacks for much of the month. >>> >>> The last emergency IE update was issued January 21 to fix eight flaws, >>> including one that had been exploited to attack Google , Adobe and scores of >>> other companies. Google blamed China for the attacks, a move that led to its >>> decision to relocate its Chinese-language search engine to Hong Kong. All 10 >>> vulnerabilities patched in today's update -- which was originally slated for >>> release April 13, the next regularly-scheduled Patch Tuesday -- were rated >>> "critical," the highest level threat in Microsoft's four-step scoring >>> system. But there were clear differences in the risk profiles of different >>> versions of IE. >>> >>> IE6, the 2001 browser that many want to see dead and buried, was affected >>> by eight of the 10 bugs, with seven of those eight marked critical. IE7, >>> which debuted in 2006 prior to the release of Windows Vista, contained seven >>> out of the possible 10, with five vulnerabilities tagged critical. IE8, on >>> the other hand, was touched by just three of the 10, with only two >>> critical."The message today should be to get onto IE8," said Andrew Storms, >>> director of security operations at nCircle Network Security. "Not just ditch >>> IE6, but dump IE6 and IE7." >>> >>> For the most part, Storms saw the 10 vulnerabilities as "pretty typical >>> IE bugs. Except for [CVE-2010-0806], none of them are particularly >>> troublesome, or no more than we've come to expect." CVE-2010-0806 is the >>> Common Vulnerabilities & Exposure ID for the vulnerability that prompted the >>> rush, or "out-of-band," update.And that vulnerability received most of the >>> attention today from Storms and other researchers, including HD Moore, the >>> creator of the Metasploit framework and chief security officer at security >>> company Rapid7, which manages the open-source Metasploit project. >>> >>> According to Moore, Microsoft's out-of-band hand was forced when a >>> Taiwanese researcher nicknamed "Nanika" revamped public exploit code so that >>> it worked reliably against not only IE6, but also the newer IE7. "Before, >>> Microsoft said, 'Not that big a deal,' but then the facts changed and they >>> say, 'Sorry, this does affect IE7 reliably.' They changed their mind." >>> >>> When Microsoft first warned customers of the memory corruption flaw in >>> the "iepeers.dll" file, it said that attacks were aimed only at IE6 users, >>> and that Protected Mode in IE7 would help protect users of that version. >>> Protected Mode is a pseudo-sandbox that tries to keep attack code from >>> escaping the browser to modify, add or delete data elsewhere on the >>> PC.Microsoft said nothing of that protection today, and rated the >>> vulnerability as critical for both IE6 and IE7. >>> >>> The bug had been reported to Microsoft by ADLab of VenusTech, a Chinese >>> security firm based in Beijing, probably in January or early February, said >>> nCircle's Storms. According to the date stamps on the iepeers.dll files for >>> the various browsers, Microsoft had completed the fix -- and passed it on to >>> internal testing -- no later than Feb. 26 for IE6 and March 12 for IE7. >>> >>> As Microsoft said both today and earlier, the iepeers.dll vulnerability >>> does not affect IE8. "I'm not surprised that Microsoft released the update," >>> said Moore. "Working exploit code has consistently accelerated Microsoft's >>> update process." As late as yesterday, other researchers had expressed >>> surprise that Microsoft was able to craft a fix so quickly. "They focus on >>> IE bugs more than anything else, because they are so high profile," said >>> Moore. >>> >>> "And Microsoft can actually fix things pretty quickly, within a week or >>> two or three," he continued. "They generally address [bugs] quickly, but >>> then hold off until its widely exploited. Otherwise, they wait until the >>> next release." MS10-018 can be downloaded and installed via the Microsoft >>> Update and Windows Update services, as well as through Windows Server Update >>> Services. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Mohd Fazli Azran >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Owasp-Malaysia mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia >> >> OWASP Malaysia Wiki >> http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia >> >> OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 >> > >
_______________________________________________ Owasp-Malaysia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420
