02 Nov
IE 7 is now an update, not an upgrade?
Slashdot notes IE7 Released As High-Priority Update. jimbojw writes, “Internet Explorer 7 was finally released this morning and is available via automatic update or download from Microsoft.”
Archive for November 2nd, 2006
02 Nov
IE7 Breaks Older QuickBooks
Over at Shedding Some Light, Rick Schummer blogs IE7 Breaks Older QuickBooks: “I use FireFox as my primary Web browser and really like it… A couple of weeks ago at Southwest Fox I learned a bunch of things about IE7 from Rick Borup. His session got me excited about some of the changes and new [...]
02 Nov
Browser vulnerabilities get stealthy
Over at DDJ.com, they're reporting that “New Hacker Toolkit Cloaks Browser Exploits” No real surprise there - polymorphic browser exploits can avoid primitive signature detection techniques that just look for “DO BadCode()” in the payload. Code that runs in a browser has to run in a safer environment, like the “security sandbox” design of Java. [...]
