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News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. While vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer have been the focus of much of the concern, other browsers also have had their fair share of flaws. A security weakness in a standard for handling special... [08 Feb 2005]
Windows security update on the way
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. Microsoft did not say whether the patches will fix several three-month-old flaws in Internet Explorer. Perceived security problems with Internet Explorer have resulted in the top browser shedding market share... [10 Jan 2005]
Phishing plug-in aims to hook scammers
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. Netcraft has released an Internet Explorer plug-in that could help people avoid becoming victims of online fraud. The software is available as a plug-in for Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser and can be... [31 Dec 2004]
Trojan slips through XP's back door
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. Symantec warned in an advisory this week that the program - dubbed "Phel", an anagram of "Help" - infects visitors to a maliciously created website through Internet Explorer's Help controls. [30 Dec 2004]
Is this the last Microsoft Update for 2004?
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. Earlier this month, Microsoft issued an unscheduled critical patch for Internet Explorer. Microsoft managed to give a small holiday gift to network administrators this month: no critical patches. [15 Dec 2004]
US uni tells students to dump IE
News CNET News.com 's Robert Lemos contributed to this report. Citing security risks, a US university is urging students to drop Internet Explorer in favor of alternative web browsers such as Firefox and Safari. [10 Dec 2004]
Microsoft banner ad attack hole patched
News Microsoft published a patch for Internet Explorer on Wednesday, aiming to close a month-old hole that has been used to spread viruses and to compromise PCs via banner-ad attacks. The vulnerability, dubbed the Internet Explorer Elements flaw by... [02 Dec 2004]
Windows and Linux exposed by Java flaw
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. The vulnerability can be used to attack systems running on Windows or Linux, for example, and using major browser software such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Firefox -- meaning a large number of systems... [24 Nov 2004]
IE security concerns mount up
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. Microsoft's Internet Explorer has become a turkey shoot for flaw finders. Microsoft is concerned that this new report of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer was not disclosed responsibly, potentially putting... [18 Nov 2004]
IE flaw opens door to latest MyDoom
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. A new version of MyDoom uses an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer to spread, antivirus companies warned on Monday. An aggressive advertiser attempted to surreptitiously install a pop-up toolbar... [09 Nov 2004]
IE flaw status 'highly critical'
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. The threat posed by a critical flaw in Internet Explorer has been ratcheted up by the release of a program designed to exploit the vulnerability, security researchers warned on Thursday. [05 Nov 2004]
Flaws in XP SP2, Mozilla, Konquerer... you name it...
News The company released information on two common security issues with the tabbed browsing feature found in several flavours of the Mozilla Foundation's browsers, the Opera browser, the Konqueror browser for Linux and two third-party plug-ins that... [21 Oct 2004]
Microsoft patches 22 security flaws
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com The advisories and patches published with the bulletins range from an "important" flaw affecting only Microsoft Windows NT Server to a collection of eight security holes, including three rated "critical", that... [13 Oct 2004]
Firefox hunting down Microsoft's market share
News Robert Lemos writes for News.com Open-source browsers Mozilla and Firefox have won over a significant number of defectors from Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the past nine months, website metrics suggest. [16 Sep 2004]
XP SP2 escapes critical Windows security flaw
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com The flaw affects various versions of at least a dozen Microsoft software applications and operating systems, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Office XP, Office 2003, Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1... [15 Sep 2004]
