Microsoft will be releasing an out-of-band patch tomorrow for the recently-disclosed zero-day hole in Internet Explorer. Find out if you need the patch, and start getting ready now. This one really is critical.
Naked Security – Sophos
There seems to have been no rest for Microsoft over the 2012 holidays as it issued a quick fix for a zero-day IE vulnerability that attackers were actively exploiting via drive-by download attacks. It may have felt like a flashback for the company as it also rushed to issue an emergency out-of-band update to deal with vulnerabilities in late December 2011.
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Words Of War And Weakness: The Zero-Day Exploit Market
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