March 31, 2010 by Andre Jackson
Microsoft have been given a tough time of late as new security issues regarding their Internet Explorer browser continue to crop up. As a result of this, the company have this week announced that are issuing a brand new security update that will plug 10 holes in Internet Explorer.
The new patch will fix a critical vulnerability that seems to have been consistently exploited by hackers, most notably at the recent Pwn2Own browser hacking competition in the US.
The cumulative update, which was rolled out to users on Tuesday will apparently resolve 9 flaws that have been reported to Microsoft privately and 1 flaw that has been publicly disclosed.
This is evidently a big issue for Microsoft as some of the more severe vulnerabilities present in the Internet Explorer browser could have disastrous consequences if they were hacked. An intrusion could lead to a remote code execution and a complete and utter takeover of the computer being hacked if the user were to accidentally view a malicious or harmful website using Internet Explorer.
Users of Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 in tandem with each other are apparently not vulnerable to the flaw according to Microsoft, but this is not to say that this combination of operating system and browser cannot be hacked at all.
Software effected by the Internet Explorer vulnerability includes pretty much all Windows operating systems from the last decade including Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista and even Windows 7.
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