Filed under: Internet, Security, Windows, Microsoft
A new Big Ugly Exploit for Internet Explorer
by Jordan Running Mar 24th 2006 at 11:25AM
Microsoft has confirmed that a newly-discovered
vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer that the security companies are calling "significant" and
"highly critical." Of course, you won't find such scary language on Microsoft's milquetoast advisory page, but the vulnerability (for
which researchers have released proof-of-concept exploit code), allows malicious web sites to run arbitrary code on
victims' machines. No patch exists, but Microsoft says an effective workaround is to disable Active Scripting in IE and
that Outlook and Outlook Express are not vulnerable. Patch Tuesday is April 11, and it's unlikely that we'll see a fix
from Microsoft until then.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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