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Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades

News Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned.

Tags: sp3, xp, ie7, windows

[12 May 2008]

Windows Vista take-up crawls at snail's pace

News The proportion of users on all versions of IE fell by 10 per cent. Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is taking a while to catch on, with just 6.3 per cent of enterprise users on the OS by the end of 2007.

Tags: microsoft, xp, firefox, ie7

[02 Apr 2008]

Microsoft unchains IE 7 for XP users

News IE 7 programme manager, Steve Reynolds, wrote in a blog post: "With today's 'Installation and Availability Update', Internet Explorer 7 installation will no longer require Windows Genuine Advantage validation and will be available to all Windows...

Tags: ie 7, firefox, wga, microsoft

[09 Oct 2007]

CIO Essentials: Open source, green tech, women in IT

News Rolling out these types of AIR-based apps means hours of mind-numbing testing and re-jigging of code because of huge inconsistencies between Safari, Mozilla, IE etc. Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture.

Tags: women, green, cio, open source

[19 Jun 2007]

What's Internet Explorer 8 all about?

News At Microsoft's Mix '07 conference in Las Vegas this week, IE platform architect Chris Wilson recapped the software behemoth's development priorities in the making of IE 7 and outlined some of its goals for the next version of its browser.

Tags: microsoft, ie 7, internet explorer 8, ie 8

[04 May 2007]

Windows at risk from fancy cursors

News IE 7 protected mode shields the computer against drive-by installations because the browser is restricted to where it can write files. A new security vulnerability puts Windows users at risk of serious cyber attacks, Microsoft has warned.

Tags: flaw, windows

[30 Mar 2007]

Phishing hole found in IE 7, says developer

News The vulnerability relates to the message IE displays when web page loading is aborted, Raff wrote. Following the reload link on that page will display the attacker's website with the address of the trusted site in the IE 7 address bar, Raff wrote.

Tags: ie 7, phishing

[15 Mar 2007]

Vista off-limits, say two US gov agencies

News The DoT also bans Vista, Office 2007 and IE 7. Windows Vista has been banned by the US Department of Transportation (DoT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Nist). The agencies have cited fear of compatibility problems as one...

Tags: windows vista, vista

[14 Mar 2007]

Microsoft probing holes in Vista, IE 7

News Microsoft has promoted the security of both IE 7 and Windows Vista. The French Security Incident Response Team (FrSirt) said in an alert that the IE vulnerability, which also affects IE 6, could be exploited in phishing attacks.

Tags: vista, ie 7, flaws, bugs

[27 Feb 2007]

More flaws: Bugs hit Firefox, IE

News In the case of IE, the problem affects the latest version - IE 7 - and probably earlier releases, Zalewski wrote. One is similar to the IE problem, while the other could let miscreants change cookie files stored on a PC running the vulnerable browser.

Tags: ie flaw, ie 7, flaw, firefox

[19 Feb 2007]

IE 7 gives secure sites the green light

News In early January, the software giant made a change on its computer systems that allowed websites fitted with a new type of security certificate to display a green-filled address bar in IE 7, Markellos Diorinos, a product manager for Windows at...

Tags: anti-phishing, ie 7, phishing

[05 Feb 2007]

Vista: Security industry ready for retail launch

News In addition, Vista includes parental controls, and IE 7 has a filter to block phishing scams. All major security software makers, as well as many smaller ones, will have products available for Vista when the operating system is launched to...

Tags: windows vista, vista, security

[18 Jan 2007]

Windows attack code made public

News All recent versions of Windows are vulnerable when all recent versions of IE, including IE 7, are in use, according to Microsoft. Computer code that exploits a security vulnerability in Windows has been published on the internet, making it more...

Tags: attack code, flaw, windows

[17 Jan 2007]

Redmond patches Windows, Office flaws

News All recent versions of Windows are vulnerable with all recent versions of IE - including IE 7 - according to Microsoft. Microsoft yesterday released fixes for vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office software but left several known Word zero-day...

Tags: security flaws, flaws, microsoft

[10 Jan 2007]

Yahoo! fixes errant update

News The previous software contains a security flaw that could cause other applications such as Microsoft's IE to crash, or prompt users to be involuntarily logged out, the spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman said Messenger should be compatible with IE 7...

Tags: yahoo

[18 Dec 2006]

Vista: 'Expect hackers to find holes'

News He said: "In IE 7 Microsoft fixed old vulnerabilities but new vulnerabilities are being found. Antivirus experts from Kaspersky Labs have predicted 90 per cent of current malware will run on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista.

Tags: windows vista, vista, kaspersky labs, hackers

[12 Dec 2006]

Passwords at risk from Firefox, IE flaw

News Both the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 web browsers are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords. Dubbed a Reverse Cross Site Request vulnerability (RCSR) by its discoverer Robert...

Tags: ie flaw, passwords, firefox, ie

[23 Nov 2006]

Can IE 7 kill off phishing?

News Tim Callan, a director at VeriSign, said anti-phishing guards in IE 7 - which will warn users off malicious websites where they may be asked to submit personal information such as bank or credit cards details - will help restore badly damaged...

Tags: attachment, phishing, phishing sites, anti-phishing

[27 Oct 2006]

Mozilla rebuts Firefox 2.0 bug claims

News Mozilla shipped Firefox 2 on Tuesday, nearly a week after Microsoft released IE 7. A day after shipping Firefox 2.0, Mozilla largely rebutted two claims of security flaws in the latest version of the web browser.

Tags: firefox 2.0, bug, mozilla

[26 Oct 2006]

Spoofing flaw unearthed in IE 7

News IE 7, released last week, allows a website to display a pop-up that can contain a spoofed web address, security monitoring company Secunia said on Wednesday. The problem lies in the way web addresses are displayed in the IE 7 address bar, a...

Tags: ie 7, flaw, spoofing

[26 Oct 2006]

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