{"id":156,"date":"2006-03-27T19:50:34","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T17:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dionaea.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/27\/ie-security-flaw-again\/"},"modified":"2006-03-28T05:25:20","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T03:25:20","slug":"ie-security-flaw-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dionaea.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/27\/ie-security-flaw-again\/","title":{"rendered":"IE Security Flaw &#8211; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;m not going to talk about that security flaw in IE here &#8211; I&#8217;ll leave that to others, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/03\/27\/another_ie_security_flaw\/\">The Register in &#8216;Critical&#8217; IE bug threatens PC users<\/a>. What I&#8217;ll mention briefly here is the wording I&#8217;ve seen elsewhere, too:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The other option is to choose an alternative browser, such as Firefox or Opera. However, even these browsers are not as safe from attack as they were once considered.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox has been subject to a number of flaws over the past year, including one that could leave its users more vulnerable to phishing scams. Meanwhile, a report published in September by Symantec rated Internet Explorer as safer than Firefox. The report found some 25 flaws in Mozilla&#8217;s Firefox internet browser, almost double the number it discovered in IE.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vulnerabilities in Opera is not mentioned &#8211; not here, not elsewhere &#8211; and I wonder: Why not? There <strong>are<\/strong> vulnerabilities to mention, right? Since it&#8217;s mentioned that it&#8217;s not as safe from attacks as once considered, I mean. Wouldn&#8217;t it be natural to mention at least <strong>one<\/strong>, serious vulnerability, like with Firefox?<\/p>\n<p>Just wondered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;m not going to talk about that security flaw in IE here &#8211; I&#8217;ll leave that to others, such as The Register in &#8216;Critical&#8217; IE bug threatens PC users. What I&#8217;ll mention briefly here is the wording I&#8217;ve seen elsewhere, too: The other option is to choose an alternative browser, such as Firefox or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dionaea.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/27\/ie-security-flaw-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IE Security Flaw &#8211; Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsers","category-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IE Security Flaw - Again - Random Thoughts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dionaea.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/27\/ie-security-flaw-again\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IE Security Flaw - Again - Random Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OK, I&#8217;m not going to talk about that security flaw in IE here &#8211; I&#8217;ll leave that to others, such as The Register in &#8216;Critical&#8217; IE bug threatens PC users. 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