While Microsoft is touting the fact Internet Explorer 8 is the single most widely used Web browser, the combined percentages of IE 6 and 7 users surpass it. The use of the older browsers means many users aren’t taking advantage of the latest browser security protections.
– Arguably one of the most
interesting elements of the cyber-attack that affected Google and more than 30
other companies was the primary
attack vector Internet Explorer 6.
The attack exploited an HTML
object memory corruption vulnerability in IE that Microsoft
was notified about in September….