Internet Explorer Bug Can Take Over PCs
Posted: September 24, 2019
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Internet Explorer has certainly been one of Microsoft's biggest security issues. Unfortunately, there are still many who use the browser regularly. If you're one of those, you need to know that there's another recent risk with IE. The new vulnerability can allow an attacker to completely take over your PC if they can get you to click on an affected web page.
Mark Hachman, Senior Editor of PCWorld, explains the vulnerability and gives you browser options to replace Internet Explore once and for all.
If you haven’t moved beyond Internet Explorer, here’s another reason to do so: Google and Microsoft have discovered a new IE vulnerability that can take over your entire PC.
Microsoft
published CVE-2019-1367 on Monday, a scripting engine memory corruption vulnerability that exists within basically every version of Internet Explorer for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. (Discovery of the bug was credited to Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group, and reported earlier
by The Register.) The vulnerability “corrupt[s] memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user,” according to Microsoft.
The alert goes on explain what this means for users. “An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user,” Microsoft says. “If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.”
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