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MS parandas IE-d:
That was quick! Microsoft patches the "1776" hole in Internet Explorer

Remember the Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day bug that made the headlines a few days ago?

It went by the nerdy name of CVE-2014-1776, which ended up being surprisingly memorable in North America, because 1776 is the year of US independence.

Sadly, the problem first came to light as the result of a real-world attack.

In other words, cybercriminals found and exploited the bug before the good guys knew about it.

(That's why it's called a zero-day, because even a well-prepared user would have had zero days to install the patch, because there wasn't one.)

Fortunately, the Bad Guys went for what Microsoft called "limited targeted attacks", meaning that the crooks didn't pump out booby-trapped web links indiscriminately, choosing instead to focus on a small set of (undisclosed) victims.

That means most of us got some sort of advance warning, together with numerous temporary measures, known as workarounds, giving us a way to protect ourselves while we waited for a proper fix.

Edasi lingil:
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/05/01/that-was-quick-microsoft-patches-the-1776-hole-in-internet-explorer/