Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Drop Internet Explorer

[Computerworld - Germany's cybersecurity agency on Monday urged users to drop Internet Explorer (IE) and switch to a rival, like Chrome or Firefox, until Microsoft patches a new critical bug in its browser.

In an alert released Monday, Germany's Federal Office for Information Security, known by its German initials of BSI for "Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik," noted that the unpatched vulnerability is already being exploited by hackers, and that "the attack code is freely available on the Internet."

BSI then advised users to stop running IE for now.

"The BSI recommends all users of Internet Explorer use an alternative browser ... until {Microsoft} has released a security update," the watchdog agency said.]

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