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Oh Gosh! Four Zero Day Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Internet Explorer


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Oh Gosh! Four Zero Day Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Internet Explorer

 

Friday, July 24, 2015 Swati Khandelwal
 

 

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How many Zero-Days do you think could hit Microsoft today? Neither one nor two; this times its Four.

 
The Hewlett-Packard's Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) has disclosed four new zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser that could be exploited to remotely execute malicious code on victim's machine.
 
All the four zero-days originally were reported to Microsoft, affecting Internet Explorer on the desktop. However, later it was discovered that the zero-day vulnerabilities affected Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Phones as well.
 
Each of the four zero-day flaws affects different components of the browser, and all are remotely... (More)
 
 
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Thanks Steve

 

Some people have a lot of free time on their hands debugging all this code looking for flaws. So if you win $5K for a bug challenge that's great but if you spent 6 months finding it wouldn't it be easier to have a real job. LOL I know that's simplifying it but I know I don't have time to spend all day, day after day putting code through analyzers looking for flaws.

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Some people have a lot of free time on their hands debugging all this code looking for flaws.

 

Heck Ron.. I don't even have to go looking for bugs.. They always seem to find me first! :P:D

 

On a serious note tho' I've always wished I had the skills of a master hacker (whitehat; of course) and do that kind of stuff. Kind of like Tsutomu Shimomura who caught Kevin Mitnick. (Or Walter Obrien of Scorpion Computer Services - TV show SCORPION is very loosely based on his real life)

 

Steve,

The master cracker (Saltine® with sea salt, of course)

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