 siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
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 ·Bell Sympatico
| Hack of Adobe Conducted Via Zero-Day IE Flaw From: Wired Threat Level
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The recent hack attack on Adobe occurred through exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability that affects all versions of Internet Explorer, according to a security researcher with a leading anti-virus firm.
Microsoft learned about the vulnerability only Wednesday evening and is planning to release an announcement about the vulnerability later today, said the researcher, who asked not to be identified because he’s not authorized to speak with the press.
The vulnerability, for which there is currently no patch, is a memory corruption flaw that causes the browser to internally misfire in a way that allows the hacker to inject malware on the user’s computer.
“It’s pretty targeted so the reality is that it’s only currently being used against these targeted companies,” the researcher said. He couldn’t say how many of the other 33 companies hit in the hack attack were breached in this way.
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kudos:4 | said by siljaline:Microsoft learned about the vulnerability only Wednesday evening and is planning to release an announcement about the vulnerability later today Here you go: »[REVISED] MS Security Advisory 979352 - Vulnerability in IE
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here is another related article, from "computerworld":
»www.computerworld.com/s/article/···_attacks |
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Microsoft Admits Zero-Day Aided Google Attackers 
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siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
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kudos:17 | reply to Cabal
I would think that any 0-day would contribute to a hack, exploit as this has. Expect and "out-of-band" non Patch Tuesday fix for this shortly.
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This is bad news for matunga 
I am always running my Win-XP with limlited user rights, and I never start IE. Would this have prevented an infection?
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